Live Auction 7744Old Masters & 19th Century Art Day Sale
Circle of Osias Beert I (?Antwerp c. 1580-1624)
Lot 160 THE PROPERTY OF AN AUSTRIAN COLLECTOR (lots 140, 142, 156, 160,
162-165, 173, 201, 204, 213, 261)

Circle of Osias Beert I (?Antwerp c. 1580-1624)

Tulips, roses, a chrysanthemum and other flowers in a sculpted bronze urn, with ladybirds, a moth and other insects, on a wooden table

Closed8 July 2009

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GBP 79,250

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Circle of Osias Beert I (?Antwerp c. 1580-1624)
Tulips, roses, a chrysanthemum and other flowers in a sculpted bronze urn, with ladybirds, a moth and other insects, on a wooden table
oil on panel
33¾ x 24 in. (85.7 x 61 cm.)

M.A. de Heuvel, Brussels.
Anonymous sale; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 12-13 December 1951, lot 110.
Comte Jean de Bousies, Brussels.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 29 June 1973, lot 38, as 'Osias Beert'.

Specialist note

This picture is sold with a copy of a certificate by Ingvar Bergström, dated 1985. In a groundbreaking article on Osias Beert's collaboration with Rubens (op. cit.), Bergström identifed five flowers in the present composition (four tulips and the narcissus) that closely follow drawings by the master.