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Flowers in a Glass Vase

Hendrik de Fromantiou (Dutch, 1633 or 1634–after 1694)
1668

Medium/Technique Oil on copper
Dimensions 27.9 × 19.4 cm (11 × 7 5/8 in.)
Framed: 50.8 × 41.9 cm (20 × 16 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Promised gift of Susan and Matthew Weatherbie, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art
Accession NumberL-R 10.2021
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings

ProvenanceGuillaume du Ry (d. by 1816), Louvain; September 4, 1816, posthumous Ry sale, G. Gautier, Louvain, lot 29, sold for 20 frs. to van Mechelen (dealer), Louvain, for Philippe-Jacques van Leemputten, Louvain [see note 1]; September 5, 1820, posthumous Leemputten sale, Louvain, lot 123, sold for 6.10 frs to Michel-Marcel Robyns, Louvain; May 21, 1833, posthumous Robyns sale, Hollanders, Louvain, lot 37, sold for 15 frs. to Thys (dealer), Brussels [see note 2]. By 1960, private collection, Paris [see note 3]. 1969, J.O. Leegenhoek (dealer), Paris [see note 4]. April 14, 1989, anonymous ("Collection of Monsieur G...") sale, Ader Picard Tajan, Paris, lot 217. By November 1989, John Mitchell Fine Paintings, London; February 1990, sold by John Mitchell to Susan and Matthew Weatherbie, Boston.

NOTES:
[1] A number of paintings in the 1816 Ry sale were purchased by the dealer van Mechelen on behalf of Philippe-Jacques van Leemputten, and appear in his posthumous sale in 1820. See the Getty Provenance Index online, sale cat. B-260.

[2] In the nineteenth-century sales, the artist's name is given as "Dromantiou" or "Dromantion". Thys may refer to Jean-François Thijs (b. 1783 - d. 1865), an art restorer and dealer in Brussels.

[3] According to the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Fleurs et Jardins dans l'Art Flamand (Ghent, 1960), cat. no. 62.

[4] According to the 1989 Ader Picard Tajan catalogue.