Jan Baptist van Fornenburgh (Active in The Hague circa 1585/95 – 1648/9), A still life with flowers in a glass roemer, on a ledge with fallen petals. Photo Sotheby's

signed lower right: yan. : batt.a f.; oil on copper; 42.5 by 30 cm.; 16 3/4 by 11 3/4 in. Estimation 60,000-80,000 GBP. Unsold

PROVENANCE: Private collection, France;
With Richard Green, London, 1989;
From whom acquired by the present owner.

NOTE: The painting can be dated circa 1629-35 on the basis of similarities with a signed and dated work of 1629 in a private collection in Germany (1) and a signed and dated work of 1635, with similar lilies, which was with David Koetser, Zurich, in 1982. We are grateful to Fred G. Meijer of the Rijskbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie for confirming the attribution to Fornenburgh on the basis of photographs.

1. See S. Segal, in A Prosperous Past, exh. cat., The Hague 1988, p. 234, no. 22, reproduced in colour on p. 107.

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