Live Auction 2645A Taste for Luxury: Two Great Houses from America's Gilded Age
David Cornelisz. de Heem (Antwerp 1663-before 1714 The Hague)
Lot 1067

David Cornelisz. de Heem (Antwerp 1663-before 1714 The Hague)

Flowers in a glass bowl on a stone ledge with butterflies

Closed21 June 2012

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USD 21,250

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David Cornelisz. de Heem (Antwerp 1663-before 1714 The Hague)
Flowers in a glass bowl on a stone ledge with butterflies
with signature 'D·DE·HEEM' (lower right, on the ledge)
oil on canvas
17 x 13¾ in. (43 x 35 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 23 January 1989, lot 186, where acquired by the present owner.

Specialist note

We are grateful to Fred Meijer of the RKD in The Hague for confirming the attribution on the basis of photographs (private communication, 8 May 2012). Mr. Meijer suggests a date of circa 1685.