Flowers in a Bottle

• Flowers in a Bottle
• Flowers in a Glass Vase

RP-T-1879-A-15

date: ‘1674 6/2’

Dirck de Bray was a versatile artist. He made etchings, woodcuts and sculptures, but became famous as a painter of floral still lifes. Unlike his contemporaries, he composed bouquets of flowers that all bloom in the same season. Among the flowers on this sheet are white and blue columbine, yellow iris, peony, iris, and morning glory. Typical of De Bray is that some flowers have yet to be arranged in the bouquet.

draughtsman: Dirck de Bray (possibly)

1674-06-02

penseelpunt en waterverf, met dekkende waterverf; kaderlijn in zwarte inkt

height 313 mm x width 201 mm

Public domain

...; ? sale, Samuel van Huls (1655-1734, The Hague), The Hague (J. Swart), 14 May 1736 sqq., Album UUU, no. 3717 (`Une Bouteille avec des Fleurs, par de Bray´); ...; collection Valerius Röver (1686-1739), Delft (cf. L. 2984a-c); his widow, Cornelia van der Dussen (1689-1762), Delft;{According to L. 2984a-c; Beck 1981, p. 122.} from whom acquired, en bloc, fl. 20,500 by the dealer H. de Leth, Amsterdam;{According to L. 2984a-c; Beck 1981, p. 122.} from whom acquired by Johann Edler Goll von Franckenstein (1722-1785), Amsterdam (L. 2987); his son, Jonkheer Johan Goll van Franckenstein (1756-1821), Amsterdam (L. 2987); his son, Jonkheer Pieter Hendrik Goll van Franckenstein (1787-1832), Amsterdam; sale, Jonkheer Johan Goll van Franckenstein, Amsterdam (J. de Vries et al.), 1 July 1833 sqq., Album B, no. 10 (`Eene Flesch waarin eenige bloemen. Uitvoerig door D. de Braay.´), with one other drawing, fl. 13 for both, to `Hulswit´;{Copy RKD.} ...; sale, Benoît Coster (?-c. 1875, Arnhem and Amsterdam), Amsterdam (C.F. Roos et al.), 18 March 1875 sqq., no. 22 (`J. de Bray. Etude de fleurs. Aquarelle.´), fl. 13, to `Van der Kellen´;{Copy RKD.} ...; acquired by the museum (L. 2228), 1879{For security reasons, the drawing was transferred from the Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken to the museum in 1879.}

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