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Roses in a glass vase

Lost Art-ID
630036
Artist / Creator
Seghers, Daniel
Birth
06.12.1590 (vor), Antwerpen
Death
02.11.1661, Antwerpen
Title
Roses in a glass vase
Dating
1640 (around)
Object type
Painting
Group of reported objects
Painting
Material / Technique
Oil ; Metal (Copper) / painted
Measures
Frame dimensions: 50,3 x 38,2 x 5,4 cm
Height
36.80 cm
Width
24.80 cm
Depth
0.80 cm
Inventory number
R 34
Description
inscribed below left: D. Seghers. Soctis. JESU; verso on decorative frame r. Chalk in blue: 3; underlined; in graphite pencil at side: 343; below l. white KHZ label in black; verso on wooden panel above middle: white KHZ label in black; above l. yellowed lined KHZ label in black: KUNSTHAUS ZÜRICH / Künstler: / Titel: / Besitzer: / Katalog-Nr.:; therein in graphite pencil: für Schaffhausen / Prof. Ruzicka; above r. Adhesive strip in black: [hs] [illegible] 343; in circle; below white lined label in black: AUSSTELLUNG / MEISTERWERKE FLÄMISCHER MALEREI / SCHAFFHAUSEN 1955 MUSEUM ZU ALLERHEILIGEN / Künstler: Kat. No. / picture title: / lender:; therein in black: Seghers, Daniel 95a / Rosen in einer Glasvase / Zurich, Stiftg. Prof. Ruzicka. [hs]; in centre in graphite pencil: n° 3i; left centre yellowed label with bevelled corners and a double red border line: [N° or 1 8?]; below centre chalk in white: 1958; next to it in graphite pencil: 52,8 / 51, 5 / 0.13; below left white KHZ label
Provenance

from 1906 at the latest - 9.2.1938, Schleissheim Gallery, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen (collection), Munich, inv. no. 1958 9.2.1938, Galerie Neumann & Salzer (gallery), Vienna, exchange [whereabouts unknown? No. 1958

9.2.1938, Galerie Neumann & Salzer (Gallery), Vienna, exchange

[whereabouts unknown?]

1938 - 21.11.1949, Otto Hirschmann (*1889 St. Gallen, +1962 Bad Ragaz) (art dealer), Amsterdam, purchase

21.11. 1949 - 2005, Ruzicka Foundation (collection), Zurich, purchase

1949 - 2005, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (Museum), Zurich, loan

from 2005, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (Museum), Zurich, gift

The provenance between 1933 and 1945 is not clearly clarified or has gaps. No evidence of Nazi-looted art has emerged from the available research. However, there are indications of Nazi-looted art and/or conspicuous accompanying circumstances. The provenance must be investigated further.

Further information in the online catalogue of the Kunsthaus Zürich: external link

Literature / Source

Marie-Louise Hairs: Les peintres flamands de fleurs au XVIIe siècle, Brüssel: Editions Meddens, 1985, Vol. I, S. 134 / Vol. II, S. 44.

Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft et al., Sammlungskatalog, Ostfildern 2007, S. 96.

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