Live Auction 21922Three Private Collections: Belgravia, Berkshire and Guernsey
CORNELIS DE HEEM (1631-1695)
Lot 51

CORNELIS DE HEEM (1631-1695)

A melon, peaches, grapes, medlars, sunflowers, roses, peonies and other flowers with butterflies and other insects on a stone ledge

Closed25 May 2023

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GBP 60,480

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CORNELIS DE HEEM (1631-1695)
A melon, peaches, grapes, medlars, sunflowers, roses, peonies and other flowers with butterflies and other insects on a stone ledge
signed 'C DE. HEEM.' (lower centre, on the ledge)
oil on canvas
20 1/8 x 25 3/8 in. (51 x 64.5 cm.)

with Richard Green, London, 1983, where purchased.

Specialist note


Dr. Fred G. Meijer, to whom we are grateful, has proposed a dating to the 1670s on the basis of photographs.