(Antwerp 1587 - 1661),
A bouquet of flowers with roses, tulips, irises and a mimosa in an ornamentally decorated earthenware vase, with three butterflies and a dragonfly,
signed at lower right: Alex Adrieanssen…,
oil on panel, 74 x 49 cm, framed

Literature: M. L. Hairs, Les peintres flamands de fleurs au XVII Siècle, Brussels 1965, p. 248, fig. 55, p. 193;
M. L. Hairs, Les peintres flamands de fleurs au XVII siècle, Brussels 1985, p. 364 (under Alexander Adriaenssen);
G. Spiessens, Leven en werk van de Antwerpse schilder Alexander Adriaenssen, Antwerp 1990, pp. 129/30, no. 48, fig. 31.

Exhibited: Tentoonstelling van Oude schilderijen, Collectie CV Kunsthandel P. De Boer, Amsterdam, Rotterdamsche Kunstring, March 1951, no. 3

Provenance: Gallery A. F. Mondschein and Co., New York, 1944;
Pieter De Boer, Amsterdam, 1950;
sale of his collection, S. G. NK etc, Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 23 Mai 1951, no. 17, fig. XII;
sale, Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, June 1978, no. 327;
sale, Sotheby’s, London, 5 July 1989, no. 87, ill.

Adriaenssen was a Flemish painter who primarily executed still lifes of fish, fruit and vegetables, shot wildfowl, and rare flowers, as they also appear in the present painting. His paintings are mostly signed and frequently also dated. A date possibly inscribed in the present painting is no longer legible.