Still Life with Tulips in a Glass Vase
Christoffel van den Berghe (c.1590 - c.1642)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1640 - 1642
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
240 x 180 mm
Place of origin
Middelburg
Order this imageCollection
Coleton Fishacre, Devon
NT 85206
Summary
Oil painting on panel, Still Life with Tulips in a Glass Vase by Christoffel van den Berghe (fl. Middelburg 1617 - 1642). Tulips, carnations, daffodils and ranunculus flowers in German knopped base rummer on table with rosemary sprig and pink rose bud in the foreground.
Provenance
[Ex collection of Fielding Marshall, USA] M. Corjol de Mon, Mainz & Montelimar, by whom given to the next owner's maternal grandfather;purchased by Miss Dorothy M Dillingham at Marshall Spinks in 1985 for £12,000 and by whom bequeathed in 2004
Marks and inscriptions
Verso, upside down: [Tableau non signé] / [ sur bois donné à mon] / [grand père maternel] / [par M. Corjol de Mon-] / [telimar qui l’avait / rapporté de Mayence,] / [ou il avait habité pen- ]/ [dant plusieurs années] / [et dont sa femme] / [était originaire.] Rear panel: [DN 190] Rear panel and frame: [NYC BF 328] Rear frame: [E7491 XOAQOBS / GAL] Rear Panel: [E7491 XOAQOBS / GAL; illegible] / [LOT 174]
Makers and roles
Christoffel van den Berghe (c.1590 - c.1642), publisher
References
Bergstrom Ingvar Bergstrom, Dutch Still Life painting in the 17th Century , page 89