Lot 51: Jan Baptist van Fornenburgh , Active in The Hague circa 1585/95 - 1648/9 A still life of tulips, lilies, moss roses, an iris and other flowers in a glass vase in a marble niche, with butterflies and a lizard oil on panel

signed with monogram lower right: I.B. (in ligature) F oil on panel

measurements note 61.5 by 47.5 cm.; 24 1/4 by 18 5/8 in.

Amsterdam, Kunsthandle P. de Boer, Helsche en Fluweelen Brueghel, 1934, no. 263 (as Johannes Bosschaert);
Paris, Grand Palais, 26 September – 18 October 1970, no. 1.

Helsche en Fluweelen Brueghel, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam 1934, no. 263, reproduced no. 34 (as Johnanus Bosschaert Fecit);
P. Gammelbo, Artes, (Periodical of Fine Arts) vol. I, Copenhagen October 1965, pp. 5/16, cat no. II, reproduced plate IV;
Foire des Antiquaires, Grand Palais, Paris, catalogue supplement from the Galerie P. de Boer exhibition, Amsterdam, September 26 - October 18, 1970, no. 1, reproduced;
L. J. Bol, Goede Onbekenden, Utrecht 1982, p. 87, reproduced fig. 1;
E. Gemar-Koeltzsch, Holländische Stillebenmaler im 17. Jahrhundert, vol. II, Lingen 1995, p. 354, no. 128/5, reproduced p. 355.

Anonymous sale, Stockholm, Bukowski, September 24, 1931 (as Ambrosius Bosschaert);
With P. de Boer, Amsterdam, 1934;
Private Collection, Wassenaar, April 1970;
From whom acquired by P. de Boer, Amsterdam;
Acquired by the present owner in 1970.

The present composition is repeated with some minor differences in Fornenburgh's painting of 1628, signed and dated, present whereabouts unknown (see E. Gemar-Koeltzsch, Holländische Stillebenmaler im 17. Jahrhundert, vol. II, Lingen 1995, pp. 353-4, no. 128/1, wrongly dated as 1608), and in a smaller work signed and dated 1635, last recorded with D.M. Koetser Collection, Zurich (see L. J. Bol, Goede Onbekenden, Utrecht 1982, p. 88, fig. 4). Thus a dating of circa 1630-35 can be suggested for the present work.