Lot 94: * MELANIE DE COMOLERA ACTIVE 1816-1854

signed and dated lower right M. Comolera fecit 1827

oil on canvas

PEONIES, ROSES, CARNATIONS, AN IRIS, ANEMONES, AURICULA AND OTHER FLOWERS IN A TERRACOTTA VASE, WITH ORANGE BLOSSOM, MORNING GLORY AND A BIRDS NEST ON A MARBLE LEDGE, A COLONNADE BEYOND

23 1/8 by 29 1/2 in.; 74.5 by 59cm

Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Christie's, May 11, 1994, lot 176;
There purchased by the present collector for $30,000.

The present work reproduces exactly a composition by Jan van Huysum, which was sold at Sotheby's New York, January 17, 1992, lot 96 to French & Co. It was probably executed in London in 1827 when the artist visited the city; the van Huysum original was at that time recorded in the collection of Henry Hope of Cavendish Square.