Lot 133: CARSTIAN LUYCKX | A still life of tulips, roses, daffodils and other flowers, with butterflies, in a glass vase on a stone ledge

oil on oak panel

42.1 by 29 cm.; 16 5/8  by 11 3/8  in.

oil on oak panel

The panel comes from one plank, which is uncradled, flat and stable. The paint surface is clean, the colours are bright and the impasto is well-preserved - the painting is in overall excellent condition. Inspection under ultraviolet light reveals very minor spot retouching to the two roses and tulips, and very small spots in the whites. There is otherwise no intervention. Offered in a stained dark wood frame in excellent condition.
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London, Leonard Koetser Gallery, Autumn exhibition of fine old master paintings of the Dutch, Flemish and other schools, 7 November – 7 December 1960, no. 19 (as Daniel Seghers).

With Leonard Koetser, by 1960 (as Daniel Seghers);
With David Koetser, by 2011, from whom acquired by the present owner.