Jacob Marrel (Frankenthal 1613/14 - 1681 Frankfurt-Am-Main), Still life of flowers in a glass vase within a niche, with cherries, shells and a lizard, oil on panel, 16 3/4  by 13 1/2  in.; 42.4 by 34.2 cm. Estimate 150,000 — 200,000 USD. Lot sold 162,500 USD. Photo Sotheby's.

Provenance: Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 19-20 May 1926, lot 235, (as A. Bosschaert), to A. Lepper, for £13-2-6;
Lady Edith Bird, The White House, Solihull, Warwickshire;
Alfred Brod, 1961.

Exhibition: Providence 1964, no. 15;
New York, Finch College Museum of Art, A Loan Exhibition, Still Life Painters.  Pieter Aertsen to Georges Braque, 1965, no. 69 (as signed lower right Jacobus Marrellus 1637);

New York, Finch College 1966, no. 22;
Birmingham 1995, no. 11;
New Orleans 1997, no. 30;
Baltimore 1999, no. 28. 

Bibliography: Providence 1964, cat. no. 15, reproduced;
New Orleans 1997, p. 74, cat. no. 30, reproduced p. 75;
Baltimore 1999, p. 66 and p. 68, cat. no. 28, reproduced p. 68;
G. Bott, Ein Stück von allerlei Blumenwerk, ein stück von Früchten, zwei Stück auf Tuch mit Hecht: die Stillebenmaler Soreau, Binoit, Codino und Marrell in Hanau und Frankfurt 1600-1650, Hanau 2001, p. 231, cat. no. WV.M. 27. 

Sotheby's. The Weldon Collection New York, 22 avr. 2015