Balthasar van der Ast

Grapes, apples, peaches and apricots in a Wan-li bowl, with quinces, a frog, a caterpillar, a fly and a beetle on a stone ledge



Balthasar van der Ast - Grapes, apples, peaches and apricots in a Wan-li bowl, with quinces, a frog, a caterpillar, a fly and a beetle on a stone ledge



Balthasar van der Ast
Grapes, apples, peaches and apricots in a Wan-li bowl, with quinces, a frog, a caterpillar, a fly and a beetle on a stone ledge
1617
58.2 x 89.4 cm
Oil on panel
Signed and indistinctly dated lower right, on the ledge: B v.d. Ast 16[17]
Sale Christie's, New York, 21 May 2025


Provenance


A. Veldman, Winschoten, by 1954.
Private collection, Europe.
with Hoogsteder & Hoogsteder, The Hague, by 1995, where acquired in 1996 by the present owner
Sale Christie's, New York, 21 May 2025, nr. 174

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