Lot 62: JUAN DE ARELLANO

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
SANTORCAZ 1614-MADRID 1676
LILIES, ROSES, PEONIES, PINKS, IRIS, A TULIP AND OTHER FLOWERS ON A STONE LEDGE, AN EARTHENWARE VESSEL UPPER LEFT;
A TULIP, ROSES, DAHLIAS, PEONIES, CAMPANULA, ORANGE BLOSSOM AND OTHER FLOWERS ON SOME STEPS, AN EARTHENWARE PITCHER UPPER RIGHT
Quantity: 2
the former signed and dated lower centre: Juan dearellano / 1665
the latter signed and dated lower right: Juan dearellano / 1665
a pair, both oil on canvas
each: 64.5 by 74 cm.; 25 3/8 by 29 1/4 in.

Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, Floreros y Bodegones en la Pintura Española, 11 May - 20 June 1935, cat. nos. 48 and 49.

J. Cavestany, Floreros y Bodegones en la Pintura Española, Madrid 1936 (published 1940), p.157, cat. nos. 48 and 49, reproduced plate XLIII, fig. 11;
I. Bergström, Maestros Españoles de Bodegones y Floreros del Siglo XVII, Madrid 1970, p. 62, reproduced figs. 43 and 44;
A.E. Perez Sanchez (ed), Juan de Arellano, 1614-1676, exhibition catalogue, Madrid 1998, pp. 56-57, reproduced p. 56, figs. 8 and 9.

Private Collection, Madrid;
With Manuel Gonzalez, Madrid, circa 1960;
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 14 December 1977, lot 25, for £25,000, where purchased by R. Feigen;
Patrick Gallagher;
By whom sold, London, Sotheby's, 17 November 1982, lot 18 for £28,000;
With Noortman & Brod, London;
From whom acquired by the father of the present owner.