Christiaen van Pol

A sprig of roses on a marble ledge with a butterfly, dragonfly and fly

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Description

Property from an Important Swiss Private Collection

Christiaen van Pol

Haarlem 1752–1813 Paris

A sprig of roses on a marble ledge with a butterfly, dragonfly and fly

signed lower right: Van Pol

oil on marble

20 x 29.5 cm.; 7⅞ x 11⅝ in.

Possibly Auguste-Louis-César-Hippolyte-Théodore de Lespinasse de Langeac, Comte d'Arlet (1759–1814);

Possibly his sale, Paris, Paillet & Delaroche, 11–19 July 1803, lot 260, for 150 francs to Paillet (‘Deux tableaux sur marbre, sujets de roses et de pêches, avec mouches, papillons et autres insectes’);

Anonymous sale, Paris, Tajan, 16 November 2001, lot 6;

Where acquired by the present owner.

Possibly Paris, Musée Central des Arts, Salon, September 1796, no. 479 (‘trois tableaux, peints sur marbre, deux de fleurs, un de fruits’).

Possibly Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure, dessins, modèles etc. Exposés dans le grand Salon du Musée Central des Arts, Paris 1796, p. 89, no. 479 (‘trois tableaux, peints sur marbre, deux de fleurs, un de fruits’).

For more information about the artist and the provenance of this work please refer to A bouquet of roses in a glass vase with a butterfly, moth and beetle, all upon a marble ledge (lot 40).