Osias Beert

Flowers in a Vase
Support
Panel
Dimensions
182 cm x 140 cm
MUSEUM COLLECTION
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
Inventory number
6588
Provenance
Sold in 1940 by the art collector Pieter Smidt van Gelder, Antwerp, to Kajetan Mühlmann for 14,000 Fl(orins); resold to A. Hitler for the Linz Collection; this collection was placed in the salt mines of Alt-Aussee (Aussee no. 2987); recovered by the American Monuments, Fine Arts & Archives division in 1945 (Linz no. 1421); transferred to the Collection Point München (Munich no. 4338); returned to Belgium (Department for Economic Recovery no. A.63); assigned in 1951 to the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels.