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STUDIO OF JAN BRUEGHEL THE ELDER (BRUSSELS 1568-1625 ANTWERP)
Flowers in a tazza on a ledge
signed and dated 'BREVGHEL · 1612' (lower centre)
oil on panel
18 1/2 x 13 3/4 in. (47 x 34.9 cm.)
Provenance
with Jacques Herbrand Gallery, Paris, by 1927.
Dr. Palkowsky, Prague, from whom acquired by the following in January 1935,
with Cassirer, Berlin and Amsterdam, where acquired by the following in May 1935,
R. Maas (1878-1940) and E. Maas (1885-1954), Amsterdam and California (stored by Cassirer, Amsterdam from 1935-1948).
with Koetser Gallery, Zurich, 1993.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 15 January 1993, lot 87, as 'Jan Brueghel the Younger'.
with Noortman, Maastricht, 1997, where acquired by the family of the present owners.
Literature
'Front Matter', The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, L, nos. 290 and 291, May-June 1927, p. xv.
R. Warner, Dutch and Flemish flower and fruit painters of the 17th and 18th centuries, London, 1928, pp. 44-45, fig. 17c, as 'Jan Brueghel (Velvet Brueghel)'.
M.-L. Hairs, Les peintres flamands de fleurs au XVIIe siècle, Paris and Brussels, 1955, p. 26; 2nd edition, 1965, p. 40 and 360; 3rd edition, 1985, I, pp. 39, 40-41, 90, 101 and 432, no. 358; II, p. 12, as 'Jean Brueghel l'Ancien'.
M.L. Hairs, 'Autour d'une nature morte de Jean Brueghel de Velours', Pallas, XXXII, 1967, no. 6.
M.L. Hairs, 'Jan Brueghel, der Sammet-Brueghel, als Maler vergoldeter Blumenschalen', Galerie Friederike Pallamar, Vienna, 1968, p. 5.
M. Eemans, Breughel de Velours, Brussels, 1964, p. 66, as 'Breughel de Velours'.
K. Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Ältere (1568-1625), die Gemälde : mit kritischem Oeuvrekatalog, Cologne, 1979, pp. 289 and 602, no. 268, illustrated, as 'Jan Brueghel the Elder'.
S. Segal, 'Twee stillevens van Cornelis Kuipers', J. Erkelens et al., Levend stilleven, Ede, 1993, pp. 32-33, no. 12, as 'Jan Brueghel the Elder'.
K. Etrz and C. Nitze-Etrz, Jan Brueghel der Ältere (1568-1625): Kritischer Katalog der Gemälde, Lingen, 2008, III, pp. 956-958, no. 451, illustrated, as 'Jan Brueghel the Elder'.
Exhibited
Essen, Kulturstiftung Ruhr, Villa Hügel; Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum; and Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Pieter Breughel der Jüngere - Jan Brueghel der Ältere: Flämische Malerei um 1600. Tradition und Fortschritt, 16 August 1997-26 July 1998, no. 87.
Special Notice
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