WILLEM VAN AELST (DELFT 1627-?1687 AMSTERDAM) - photo 1
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WILLEM VAN AELST (DELFT 1627-?1687 AMSTERDAM)

Lot 56
31.01.2024 10:00UTC -05:00
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AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
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Lot 56 | WILLEM VAN AELST (DELFT 1627-?1687 AMSTERDAM)
Estimate value
$ 150 000 – 250 000
WILLEM VAN AELST (DELFT 1627-?1687 AMSTERDAM)

A bouquet with a sunflower, roses, an iris, tulips, carnations and a camellia in a gilt mounted vase, with insects on a marble tabletop

signed and dated 'Guill.mo v...Aelst.166[6]' (lower left)

oil on canvas

32 ¾ x 26 3⁄8 in. (83.2 x 67.5 cm)





Provenance

Major G. M. Harding, Woodmancote, Lymington; [The Property of Major G. M. Harding, and are sold owing to his having given up his residence, Woodmancote, Lymington, Hants.], Christie's, London, 24 April 1931, lot 23.

[The Property of Guy Argles Esq.]; London, Sotheby's, 2 December 1964, lot 23, to the following,

with Agnew's, London, by 1967.

Mona Field, United Kingdom.

Charles Crichton and Isabel Laird Crichton, United Kingdom.

with Richard Green, London, by 1996, from whom acquired by,

Dimitri Mavrommatis, Geneva; Sotheby's, London, 5 December 2007, lot 41, where acquired after the sale by the present owner.



Literature

The Burlington Magazine, CVI, 1964, advertisement, p. xii, illustrated.

The Connoisseur, CLXIV, 1967, advertisement, n.p., illustrated.

T. Paul, 'Beschildert met glans': Willem van Aelst and artistic self-consciousness in Seventeenth-Cetury Dutch Still Life painting, Ph.D. dissertation, The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 2008, p.285, no. 66.



Exhibited

London, Agnew's, Old Masters Recent acquisitions, 4 April-6 May 1967, no. 19.

London, Richard Green, Important Old Master Paintings, 1997, no. 19.
Artist:Willem van Aelst (Vogelverschrikker, 1627 - 1683)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Genre:Still life
Place of origin:Western Europe, The Netherlands
Auction house category:Paintings
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