(Antwerp 1587 – 1661)
A bouquet of roses, tulips, irises, and a mimosa in a decorative earthenware vase, with three butterflies and a dragonfly, signed at lower right Alex Adrieanssen..., oil on panel, 74 x 49 cm,

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

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

Literature: the painting is listed and reproduced in: M. L. Hairs, Les peintres flamands de fleurs au XVII Siècle, Brussels 1965, p. 248, fig. 55 and fig. 193; M. L. Hairs, “Les peintres flamands de fleurs au XVII siècle”, catalogue entry, Brussels 1985, under Alexander Adriaenssen, p. 364; G. Spiessens, Leven en werk van de Antwerpse schilder Alexander Adriaenssen, Antwerp 1990, pp. 129/30, no. 49, fig. 31.

Adriaenssen was a Flemish painter who specialised primarily in still lifes of fish, fruit, vegetables, shot wildfowl, and rare flowers. His paintings are usually signed and frequently also dated.