A flowered vase on a ledge with a lizard, a dragonfly and a snail

Oil on panel : 64,2 X 52,2 cm

Signed and dated bottom right JSHorst. Fecit. 166,”

(the J, S and H are intertwined; as to the last digit it might be read as a 2, but it most probably is a 4)

Frame : 89,7 X 78,1 cm

 

Provenance : formerly in Düsseldorf, in the Werner Dahl collection.

 

I would like to thank Fred Meijer for confirming the attribution. The expert also describes our painting in “The Ashmolean Museum Oxford. Dutch and Flemish Still-Life Paintings”, 2003, P. 275