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Adriaen van Nieulandt (Antwerp 1585/7-1658 Amsterdam)
Lot 114

Adriaen van Nieulandt (Antwerp 1585/7-1658 Amsterdam)

Tulips, roses, Turk's cap lilies, columbines, carnations and other flowers in a ceramic vase, with tulips in a glass vase, on a wooden ledge, with a peacock butterfly, a grasshopper and a lizard

Closed7 December 2011

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Adriaen van Nieulandt (Antwerp 1585/7-1658 Amsterdam)
Tulips, roses, Turk's cap lilies, columbines, carnations and other flowers in a ceramic vase, with tulips in a glass vase, on a wooden ledge, with a peacock butterfly, a grasshopper and a lizard
signed and dated 'Adriaen van Nieulandt Fecit . 160[?]4.' (lower left)
oil on panel
27¾ x 22¾ in. (70.5 x 57.8 cm.)

Louis Robbe, Courtrai, in the 19th century (a sketch of three birds singing on the reverse of the panel, signed 'Robbe').
Anonymous sale; Palais d'Orsay, Paris, 21 November 1978, lot 61.
with Galerie Michel Ségoura, Paris, 1978.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Monaco, 17 June 1988, lot 864.

Specialist note

This panel is one of the rare still-life paintings executed by Adriaen van Nieulandt. Only two others are known today: the first, a Vanitas dated 1636, is in the Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem; the second was on the international art market in 1966.