Gazette Drouot logo print
Gazette Drouot de la semaine
La Gazette Drouot
Subscribe
FR

An Encyclopedic Still Life by an Unknown Dutch Artist

Published on , by Caroline Legrand
Auction on 11 October 2020 - 10:30 (CEST) - 14, rue des Jardins - 59000 Lille

There are nearly as many insects as flowers in this brilliantly teeming still life, whose painter’s name raises many questions.

Attributed to Nicolaes van Suchtelen (1656-1715), Still Life with Flowers, Butterflies,... An Encyclopedic Still Life by an Unknown Dutch Artist

Attributed to Nicolaes van Suchtelen (1656-1715), Still Life with Flowers, Butterflies, Slugs, Grasshoppers and Spiders in a Vase on a Marble Column, 1675, canvas, 65 x 52 cm.
Estimate: €40,000/50,000

Dutch art historian Fred Meijer says this oil on canvas signed and dated “N A Suchtelen fe… 1675” is the only known painting by the artist, whose initials remain hard to decipher. The Suchtelen family was prominent…
This article is for subscribers only
You still have 85% left to read.
To discover more, Subscribe
Gazette Drouot logo
Already a subscriber?
Log in
Great Catalogued Sale of Classical Art
Sunday 11 October 2020 - 10:30 (CEST) - Live
14, rue des Jardins - 59000 Lille
Mercier & Cie
Info and sales conditions
Not to be missed
Pre-sale
Historic Pistols Linked with Napoleon's Attempted...
These masterpieces by gunsmith Louis-Marin Gosset witnessed a turning...
Pre-sale
An Important Venetian Ceremony Painted in 1673...
This large panorama, teeming with detail, bears witness to Joseph...
Pre-sale
A Breakthrough for Auguste Herbin
For the artist, the 1940s were the years of the development of his...
Pre-sale
A Trompette Floor Lamp by Alberto Giacometti,...
Alberto Giacometti's bronze lighting fixtures are a benchmark in...