Bouquet of Flowers on a Ledge

Balthasar van der Ast (Dutch, 1593 or 1594–1657)

1624

Medium/TechniqueOil on copper

Dimensions13.3 x 10.2 cm (5 1/4 x 4 in.)
Framed: 17.8 x 14 x 1.6 cm (7 x 5 1/2 x 5/8 in.)

Credit LineGift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art

Accession number2017.4187

On View

Not on view

ClassificationsPaintings

Collections

Europe

InscriptionsSigned lower left: .vander.ast.f.; dated lower right:1624

ProvenanceJuly 10, 1981, anonymous ("Property of a Lady") sale, Christie’s, London, lot 7. By 1983, David Koetser (dealer), Zurich [see note 1]; about 1985, sold by Koetser to Henry Weldon (b. 1905 - d. 2003) and June Weldon (b. 1922 - d. 2014), New York; April 22, 2015, Weldon sale, Sotheby’s, New York, lot 65, to Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo, Marblehead, MA; 2017, gift of Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 14, 2017)

NOTES:
[1] The painting was exhibited at the David Koetser Gallery, Zurich from December 1 – 16, 1983.