Flowers in a Bottle

Dirck de Bray, 1674-06-02

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.

  • Artwork typedrawing
  • Object numberRP-T-1879-A-15
  • Dimensionsheight 313 mm x width 201 mm
  • Physical characteristicspoint of brush and watercolour, with some opaque watercolour; framing line in black ink

Identification

  • Title(s)

    • Flowers in a Bottle
    • Flowers in a Glass Vase

  • Object type

  • Object number

    RP-T-1879-A-15

  • Description

    Enige bloemen in een fles, rechts een pioenroos en een acolye, naast de fles liggen een madeliefje en een palmtak.

  • Inscriptions / marks

    date: ‘1674 6/2’

  • Part of catalogue

Creation

  • Creation

    draftsman (artist): Dirck de Bray, Haarlem (possibly)

  • Dating

    1674-06-02

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    point of brush and watercolour, with some opaque watercolour; framing line in black ink

  • Dimensions

    height 313 mm x width 201 mm

Acquisition and rights

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    ...; ? 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; his widow, Cornelia van der Dussen (1689-1762), Delft;{According to L. 2984a-c; H.-U. Beck, ‘Anmerkungen zu den Zeichnungssammlungen von Valerius Röver und Goll van Franckenstein’, _Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek_ 32 (1981), p. 122.} from whom acquired, _en bloc_, fl. 20,500 by the dealer Hendrik de Leth (1696-1766), Amsterdam;{Ibid.} from whom acquired by Johann Edler Goll von Franckenstein (1722-85), 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, 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, 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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