22 avril 2015
Flemish School, 17th century, Vanitas still life with a vase of flowers, plate of fruit, skull, and box of jewels on draped wood
Flemish School, 17th century, Vanitas still life with a vase of flowers, plate of fruit, skull, and box of jewels on draped wooden table, oil on canvas, 30 by 24 1/2 in.; 76.2 by 62.2 cm. Estimate 30,000 — 40,000 USD. Lot sold 32,500 USD. Photo Sotheby's.
Provenance: With H.H. Cevat, Laussane;
Alfred Brod, 1969.
Exhibition: New Orleans 1997, no. 51 (as Peeter Sion);
Baltimore 1999, no. 50 (as Peeter Sion).
Bibliography: A. Veca, Vanitas: Il simbolismo del tempo, Bergamo 1981, pp. 102-103, cat. no. 123, reproduced p. 103;
New Orleans 1997, pp. 132-133, cat. no. 51, reproduced p. 133;
Baltimore 1999, p. 119, cat. no. 50, reproduced (all of the above as Peeter Sion).
Sotheby's. The Weldon Collection, New York, 22 avr. 2015
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