BALTHASAR VAN DER AST (MIDDLEBURG 1593-1657 DELFT) - photo 1
BALTHASAR VAN DER AST (MIDDLEBURG 1593-1657 DELFT) - photo 2
BALTHASAR VAN DER AST (MIDDLEBURG 1593-1657 DELFT) - photo 3
BALTHASAR VAN DER AST (MIDDLEBURG 1593-1657 DELFT) - photo 4

BALTHASAR VAN DER AST (MIDDLEBURG 1593-1657 DELFT)

Estimate value
£ 250 000 – 350 000
Auction dateClassic
02.07.2024 19:00UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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United Kingdom, London
ID 1239211
Lot 13 | BALTHASAR VAN DER AST (MIDDLEBURG 1593-1657 DELFT)
BALTHASAR VAN DER AST (MIDDLEBURG 1593-1657 DELFT)
A parakeet on an upturned basket, with fruit, a pewter plate, a vase of flowers, insects, a lizard and shells on a stone ledge
signed '· B · vander · Ast ···' (lower right, on the ledge)
oil on panel
21 5/8 x 39 ½ in. (55 x 100.4 cm.)




Provenance

with Eugene Slatter, London, 1946.
Sir Robert Bland Bird (1876-1960), 2nd Bt., Paris; (†) his sale, Palais Galliéra, Paris, 1 April 1965, lot 2 (88,600 FF).
Private collection, Switzerland.
Anonymous sale [Collection de Monsieur G...]; Ader Picard Tajan, Paris, 14 April 1989, lot 215.
with Richard Green, London, by November 1989.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 9 July 1998, lot 40, when acquired by the following,
Anonymous sale [Property from a European Private Collection]; Sotheby's, London, 5 December 2018, lot 37, when acquired after the sale by the present owner.



Literature

L.J. Bol, The Bosschaert Dynasty: Painters of flowers and fruit, Leigh-on-Sea, 1960, p. 85, no. 115.
Advertisement 'Ventes Aux Encheres à Paris', Die Weltkunst, XXXV, 1 March 1965, p. 147, illustrated.
'Ventes Prochaines', Gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot, 19 March 1965, p. 1.
'Les cours de ventes', Connaissance des Arts, CLXVI, December 1965, p.161, no. 9, illustrated.
'Front Matter - Richard Green Advertisement', The Burlington Magazine, CXXXI, no. 1040, November 1989, p. lxi, illustrated.



Exhibited

Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, 1963, no. 3 (according to a label on the reverse).
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