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  • Exhibition History
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Overview

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Inscription

lower right: BRUEGHEL 1615

Marks and Labels

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Provenance

General Bruylandt, Brussels.[1] (sale, Galerie Paul Brandt, Amsterdam, 10 October 1967, no. 6); (Edward Speelman, Ltd., London); sold January 1968 to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia; gift 1992 to NGA.

[1] According to information provided by the Speelman Gallery, a General Bruylandt of Brussels had previously owned the painting; see correspondence from Bevery Carter, secretary to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, dated 19 April 1995 (in NGA curatorial files).

Exhibition History

1991
Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1991, 48-49, color repro.
1995
Dutch Cabinet Galleries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1995-1996, no cat.
1999
From Botany to Bouquets: Flowers in Northern Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1999, no. 13, fig. 39.

Bibliography

1968
"Le Guide de l'Acheteur." Connaissance des Arts. 196 (1968): 115, repro.
1979
Ertz, Klaus. Jan Brueghel the Ältere. Cologne, 1979: 297-298, 606, no. 293, color repro.
1981
Ertz, Klaus. Jan Brueghel der Ältere (1568-1625). Cologne, 1981: 118, repro.
1982
Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn 1982: 102.
1984
Ertz, Klaus. Jan Breughel der Jüngere (1601-1678), die Gemälde mit kritischem Oeuvrekatalog. Freren, 1984: 449.
1984
Liedtke, Walter A. Flemish Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1984: 1:23.
1985
Hairs, Marie-Louise. The Flemish Flower Painters in the XVIIth Century. Trans. by Eva Grzelak. Brussels, 1985: 39.
1996
Brenninkmeijer-de Rooij, Beatrijs. Roots of seventeenth-century Flower Painting: Miniatures, Plant Books, Paintings. Leiden, 1996: 83.
1996
Yapou, Yonna. "Dutch Acquisitions in Washington." Apollo 145 (December 1996): 20.
1997
Breughel-Brueghel: Pieter Breughel der Jüngere-Jan Brueghel der Ältere. Exh. cat. Kultuurstiftung Ruhr, Villa Hügel, Essen; Kunsthistorisches Museums Wien; Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Anterp. Lingen, 1997: 286, repro.
1998
Hairs, Marie-Louise. Les Peintres flamands de fleurs au XVIIe siècle. 2nd ed. Tournai, 1998:47.
2000
Laird, Mark. "From Bouquets to Baskets." Antiques (June 2000): 937, repro.
2004
Hand, John Oliver. National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection. Washington and New York, 2004: 230, no. 182, color repro.
2005
Wheelock, Jr., Arthur K. Flemish Paintings of the Seventeenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2005: 18-20, color repro.

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