Jan Brueghel the Younger

Colonel Richard Woodforde Deane (1859–1940), Hassocks, Sussex;

By whose Executors sold, London, Christie's, 2 August 1940, lot 21 (as de Heem), for 29 guineas to Katz;

With Julius Singer, London, until 31 October 1940;

When acquired by a private collection;

Presumably by descent until anonymously sold (‘The Property of a Lady’), London, Christie’s, 10 July 1987, lot 49, for £56,200;

With Johnny van Haeften, London, by March 1988;

Anonymous sale, Paris, Ader Picard Tajan, 29 June 1989, lot 48;

Anonymous sale (‘The Property of a Gentleman’), London, Christie’s, 10 July 1998, lot 16 (as Jan Brueghel the Younger), for £89,500 to De Jonckheere;

With Galerie De Jonckheere, Paris;

From whom acquired by Baron and Baronne de Giey;

Thence by descent.

M.-L. Hairs, Les Peintres flamands de fleurs au XIIe siècle, Brussels 1965, p. 364 and n. 300 (as attributed to Jan Brueghel the Elder);

K. Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Ältere (1568–1625), Cologne 1979, pp. 300–1 and 614, no. 338, reproduced p. 301, fig. 375 (as Jan Brueghel the Elder [?]);

M.-L. Hairs, Les Peintres flamands de fleurs au XVIIe siècle, Brussels 1985, vol. II, p. 14 (as attributed to Jan Brueghel the Elder).

London, Johnny Van Haeften and Maastricht, TEFAF, Dutch and Flemish Old Master Paintings, 1988, no. 3 (as Jan Brueghel the Younger);

New York, Newhouse Galleries, Nature’s Image, 11 May – 17 June 1988, n. p., no. 2 (as Jan Brueghel the Younger).