ID 1239206
Lot 18 | ROELANDT SAVERY (COURTRAI 1576-1639 UTRECHT)
Estimate value
£ 800 000 – 1 200 000
An iris, a tulip, roses and other flowers in a glass beaker, with a lizard and a dragonfly, in a niche
signed and dated 'R. SAVERY. 1612' (lower left)
oil on copper
6 ¾ x 5 3/8 in. (16.7 x 13.5 cm.)
Provenance
N. Hickman, Kidlington, Oxford.
F.C. Wellstood.
Mrs. H.W. Baker.
with Eugene Slatter, London, 1957.
Anonymous sale [Private collection, Scotland]; Christie’s, London, 11 July 1980, lot 115, when acquired for £85,000 by the following,
with John Mitchell & Son, London.
Private collection, Aerdenhout, The Netherlands, from 1981 to before or until 1985.
Robert H. Smith, Washington, DC, and Arlington, Virginia, by 1985 until 1988.
Private collection, Germany, 1988; Sotheby’s, London, 12 July 2001, lot 40 (£1,763,500), when acquired by the present owner.
Literature
M.-L. Hairs, Les Peintres Flamands De Fleurs, II, Brussels, 1965, p. 401.
J.A. Spicer, The Drawings of Roelandt Savery, PhD dissertation, Yale University, 1979 (published Ann Arbor 1982), p. 385.
L.J. Bol, ‘Goede onbekenden Schilders van het vroege Nederlandse bloemstuk met klein gedierte als bijwerk. Roelandt Savery (1576-1639)’, Tableau, III, 1981, p. 756, illustrated.
L.J. Bol, 'Goede onbekenden’, Hedendaagse herkenning en waardering van verscholen, voorbijgezien en oderschat talent, Utrecht, 1982, pp. 69-71, fig. 3.
S. Segal, 'The Flower Pieces of Roelandt Savery', Leidse Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, 1982, p. 335, under note 14.
M.-L. Hairs, The Flemish Flower Painters in the XVllth Century, Brussels, 1985, p. 215, pl. 71.
T. de Costa Kaufmann, L'Ecole de Prague. La peinture à la cour de Rodolphe II, Paris, 1985, p. 285, no. 19/60, illustrated.
K.J. Müllenmeister, Roelant Savery: Die Gemälde mit kritischem Oeuvrekatalog, Freren, 1988, pp. 55, 168, 171, 329-330, no. 274, pl. 55.
G.J.M. Weber, Stilleben alter Meister in der Kasseler Gemäldegalerie, Melsungen, 1989, p. 28, no. 22.
Exhibited
Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum and Utrecht, Centraal Museum, Roelant Savery in seiner Zeit (1576-1639), 28 September-16 February 1986, no. 12.
Kassel, Museum Schloss Wilhelmshöhe, 1994-1995, on loan.
The Hague, The Mauritshuis, 1995-2001, on loan.
Artist: | Roelandt Savery (1576 - 1639) |
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Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
Art style: | Old Masters |
Place of origin: | Belgium, Western Europe, Europe |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
Artist: | Roelandt Savery (1576 - 1639) |
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Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
Art style: | Old Masters |
Place of origin: | Belgium, Western Europe, Europe |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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