A Holy Temptation

Published on 19 September 2019, by Agathe Albi-Gervy

Auction on 25 September 2019 - 10:00 (CEST) - 44, Schellingstrasse - D-80799 Munich

This panel is interesting for two reasons: a rare still life of fruit and shellfish now listed in the corpus of Ambrosius BosschaertT the Younger, it is also coming on the market for the first time and has never been published.

Ambrosius Bosschaert the Younger (1609-1645), Früchtestillleben mit Muscheln und... A Holy Temptation

Ambrosius Bosschaert the Younger (1609-1645), Früchtestillleben mit Muscheln und Insekten (Still life with fruits, shellfish and insects), oil on panel, 37.5 x 49.5 cm.
Estimate: €300,000/500,000

Here, it is amusing to see how a specialist painter of flowers like Ambrosius Bosschaert has decided to relegate his usual subject to the background and reduce it to simple green leaves. What's more, they only seem to owe their presence to the way they balance…

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