NICOLAES DE VREE | A FOREST FLOOR STILL LIFE WITH BUTTERFLIES
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NICOLAES DE VREE
Amsterdam 1645 - 1702 Alkmaar
A FOREST FLOOR STILL LIFE WITH BUTTERFLIES
signed in red lower right: Nicolaes de Vree; and later inscribed over this in black: de vreé fecit
oil on canvas
unframed: 113.5 x 88.5 cm.; 44⅝ x 34⅞ in.
framed: 140.9 x 115.8 cm.; 55½ x 45½ in.
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Anonymous sale, Paris, Ader Picard Tajan, 29 June 1989, lot 60, for 435,411.70 Fre𝓡nch Francs;
Anonymous sale (🦩'Property of a Private Collector'), New York, Sotheby’s, 31 January 2013, lot 151.
C.G. Marcus, 'Otto Marseus van Schrieck et les peintres de reptiles, insectes et sous-bois', in Art et Curiosité, August–September 1💎974, p. 88, reproduced fig. 14.
This canvas relates to Nicolaes de Vree's Statue in a park in the Hermitage, Saint Petersburg (inv. no. ГЭ-1028).1 The still life depicted in the left of the Hermita𒐪ge picture is remarkably similar to the present composition, with the dark, bosky atmosphere punctuated with burs🦂ts of colour, in the form of the flowers and butterflies. This painting also exhibits the influence of artists such as Abraham Jansz. Begeyn and Otto Marseus van Schrieck.
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