Balthasar van der Ast
A Tulip, a Carnation and Roses, with Shells and Insects, on a Ledge
1629
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Balthasar van der Ast
A Tulip, a Carnation and Roses, with Shells and Insects, on a Ledge
1629
Physical Qualities
Oil on wood panel, Unframed: 12 × 15 7/8 in. (30.5 × 40.3 cm.)
Framed: 17 × 21 in. (43.2 × 53.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Art Fund established with exchange funds from gifts of Dr. and Mrs. Edgar F. Berman, Equitable Bank, N.A., Geoffrey Gates, Sandra O. Moose, National Endowment for the Arts, Lawrence Rubin, Philip M. Stern, and Alan J. Zakon
Object Number
2023.20
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2023; Richard Green Gallery, London; Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 27 January 2022, lot 35 (bought in); Private collection, Europe; Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 4 July 2018, lot 18; Anonymous sale, Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 7 April 1970, lot 2; Ludwig Arnold Stroink (1886-1969), Enschede, by 1955; Kunsthandel Pieter de Boer, Amsterdam, by 1934; Private collection, The Netherlands.
Kunsthandel Pieter de Boer, "De helsche en de fluweelen Brueghel en hun invloed op de kunst in de Nederlanden: naar aanleiding van de tentoonstelling in de N.V. Kunsthandel P. de Boer", February 10, 1934-March 26, 1934.
Dordrechts Museum, "Boom, Bloem en Plant: Nederlandse meesters uit vijf eeuwen", July 16, 1955-August 31, 1955.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Watershed: Transforming the Landscape in Early Modern Dutch Art," February 9–July 27, 2025.
Dordrechts Museum, "Boom, Bloem en Plant: Nederlandse meesters uit vijf eeuwen", July 16, 1955-August 31, 1955.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Watershed: Transforming the Landscape in Early Modern Dutch Art," February 9–July 27, 2025.
"De helsche en de fluweelen Brueghel en hun invloed op de kunst in de Nederlanden: naar aanleiding van de tentoonstelling in de N.V. Kunsthandel P. de Boer," Amsterdam: Kunsthandel Pieter de Boer, 1934, p. 55, no. 235.
"Boom, Bloem en Plant: Nederlandse meesters uit vijf eeuwen," Dordrecht: Dordrechts Museum, 1955, p. 6, no. 6.
L.J. Bol, "The Bosschaert Dynasty: Painters of Flowers and Fruit," Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, Publishers, Limited, 1960, p. 76, no. 47, pl. 41a.
Inscribed: Signed, lower left: B. van der ast
Artist
Balthasar van der Ast
1592–1656
Dutch, born Middelburg, Zeeland, 1593/1594 - died 1657, Delft
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