Lot 126: JOHANN BAPTIST DRECHSLER

JOHANN BAPTIST DRECHSLER VIENNA 1756 - 1811 STILL LIFE OF PEONIES, A ROSE, PRIMROSES, AN IRIS AND OTHER FLOWERS IN A VASE WITH A BIRD'S NEST, RESTING ON A STONE LEDGE WITHIN A NICHE signed and dated lower center: Joh. Drechsler 1809 oil on panel 18 5/8 by 13 3/8 in.; 47.3 by 34 cm.

Marquesa Margaret Rockefeller de Larrain;
By whom sold, New York, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, 8 January 1981, lot 60;
There purchsed by the present collectors.

We are grateful to Fred Meijer of the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague for confirming the attribution, based on an image.

Please see note on the artist under lot 123.