Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher

Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 115. Still life with flowers in a basket and in a gilt tazza.

Property from a German Private Collection

Jan Breughel the Younger

Still life with flowers in a basket and in a gilt tazza

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December 9, 02:18 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a German Private Collection

Jan Breughel the Younger

Antwerp 1601 - 1678

Still life with flowers in a basket and in a gilt tazza


oil on oak panel

unframed: 54.9 x 91.2 cm.; 21⅝ x 35⅞ in.

framed: 68.9 x 105.2 cm.; 27⅛ x 41⅜in.

Lowengart collection, Fürth;
Otto Lowengart, Milwaukee, 1979;
From whom purchased by a Midwest private collector, USA;
By whom anonymously sold (‘The Property of a Midwest Collector’), New York, Christie’s, 17 June 2004, lot 23, where acquired.
Milwaukee, Art Museum, Hidden Treasures: Wisconsin Collects Painting and Sculpture, 11 September – 1 November 1987, no. 9 (as Jan Brueghel the Elder).

This composition exists in several autograph versions by Jan Breughel the Younger, including that in the Ardenne collection, Dordrecht,1 and the painting sold at Replica Shoes ’s, London, 14 December 2000, lot 10 (for £212,500).2 These works are themselves related to a painting in the Museum of Replica Handbags s, Budapest (in which the basket, tazza and blooms on the ledge are all in slightly different positions), which is ultimately based on designs attributed to Jan Brueghel the Elder.3


1 K. Ertz, Jan Breughel the Younger (1601–1678), Freren 1984, pp. 450–51, no. 287, reproduced p. 451.

2 https://rkd.nl/explore/images/102443

3 https://www.mfab.hu/artworks/weaved-basket-and-tazza-with-flowers/