Lot 5: Jan Davidsz. de Heem (Utrecht 1606-1684 Antwerp)

Jan Davidsz. de Heem (Utrecht 1606-1684 Antwerp) Tulips, a sunflower, an iris, hydrangeas, honeysuckle, willow catkins, carnations and other flowers in a glass vase on a marble pediment oil on canvas 37¼ x 28¾ in. (94.6 x 73 cm.)

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Dutch Pictures 1450-1750, Winter Exhibition, 1952-1953, no. 640. Paris, Galerie Weil, La Nature morte et son inspiration, 1960, no. 23.

I. Bergström, Studier i holländskt stillebenmaleri under 1600-talet, Göteborg, 1947, p. 306, note 33; English edition, 1956, p. 311, note 37. J.G. van Gelder, Catalogue of the Collection of Dutch and Flemish Still-Life Pictures bequeathed by Daisy Linda Ward, Oxford, 1950, p. 97, under no. 36. H. Shipp, The Dutch Masters, London, 1952, p. 121, pl. XIV. J. Hadfield, A Book of Beauty: An Anthology of Words and Pictures, London, 1952, pp. 211, 252, illustrated. M.-L. Hairs, Les peintres flamands de fleurs au XVIIe siècle, Paris and Brussels, 1955, p. 223; 2nd edition, 1965, p. 387; 3rd edition, 1985, II, p. 31.

(Probably) François Ignace de Dufresne, Conseiller en Bavière; his sale (†) Schley, Winter and Yver, Amsterdam, 22 August 1770, lot 234 (525 florins), where described as ‘un pot de fleurs & de fruits. Peint sur toile, haut de 36, large de 29 pouces. Il contient des Roses, des Tulipes, des Oeillets, des Pavots, & sur les Fleurs on voit divers Insectes. Tableau terminé & très bien peint’. Nicolaas Nieuhoff, his sale (†) Schley, Winter, and Yver, Amsterdam, 14 April 1777, lot 64 (750 guilders to Fouquet), where described as ‘Een gryze steenen tafel, op welke een glaze vles bijna vol water, waar op een venster weerschynt, in de fles staat een schooner bouquet van veelderhande bloemen en gewassen, waarop mengerhande gediertens en insectens aazen, alles is verwonderlyk schoon, zo van inventie als houding van ligt en bruin, en in de volle kragt van dezen meester geschilderd. Hoog 35, en breed 29 duim. Doek’. (A grey stone table, upon which sits a glass bottle almost full of water, in which a window is reflected, in the bottle is a beautiful bouquet of manifold flowers and plants, upon which many sorts of animals and insects are preying, all is wondrously beautiful, both in invention as in depth of light and shadow and painted in the full power of this master). with Eugene Slatter, 1947 and 1960.