Balthasar van der Ast
Middelburg 1594 - Delft 1657
A Still-Life of Fruit and Shells with a Rose and various Insects upon a stone ledge.
Oil on panel, 36.5 x 50.5 cm.
Signed lower right: .B.vander.Ast
Sold to
A Private Collection, USA, in 2013
Provenance
Emil Lachman, Berlin;
His sale, Berlin, Lepke, 30 September - 1 October 1913, lot 247;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie’s, 27 June 1958, lot 71.
With the Hallsborough Gallery, London;
Purchased from the above by the father of the present owner.
Private Collection, Geneva.
Exhibition Ghent, Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België, Fleurs et Jardins dans l’art Flamand, 1960, no. 9.
Literature L.J. Bol, The Bosschaert dynasty, Leigh-on-Sea 1960, pp. 81-2, cat. no. 92.
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