tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11826072625300914082024-03-13T13:02:52.067+01:00The Auction AugurFinding hidden treasure in auctions everywhereFrancis Moutonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08107574903280657353noreply@blogger.comBlogger914125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1182607262530091408.post-7477238188507756922024-02-21T13:12:00.000+01:002024-02-21T13:12:11.258+01:00Hélène Dehaussy<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9r76Mv7HpVPjrAet9s6tz2Y6qS-cuyRchXF73XXTJD0kcUAXyJy_Ipib6AMNUOSABdM1nMxbMsGbZVZG_-Jq1wTiWm4T75PX7HQlPe-UvDVFC6wmbnR-nquGK5a-bN6y67sMMAtAHUoiDFgWeqPr9O2yLjiYKgHC5yGdhD1SrNLvNxJGBtsUoQTCTyZw/s1080/002918_719995243_b191d1c144e25fc39d0ed8a93cfb7804.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="810" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9r76Mv7HpVPjrAet9s6tz2Y6qS-cuyRchXF73XXTJD0kcUAXyJy_Ipib6AMNUOSABdM1nMxbMsGbZVZG_-Jq1wTiWm4T75PX7HQlPe-UvDVFC6wmbnR-nquGK5a-bN6y67sMMAtAHUoiDFgWeqPr9O2yLjiYKgHC5yGdhD1SrNLvNxJGBtsUoQTCTyZw/s320/002918_719995243_b191d1c144e25fc39d0ed8a93cfb7804.webp" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqxf4aaav0vLzSeBHl42aLvlmFN4EEQULpXAHf664fyzPQ3LYp9jzWa034p7bmZ0DGZp2lrf4WagJqBNfZnPCMxeS-lD_VJVDc6H18_3MjA1xrhk4g93_QMb2LK_9tKMCO5UQWxEXGsroUruh2cdpWQj079ZuIo_kPvoA5b_8h0R5NswP7mkw_OxPjGFk/s1080/002919_123329777_3995bdcd78e6db1ab42b4760bcdfa91a.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="810" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqxf4aaav0vLzSeBHl42aLvlmFN4EEQULpXAHf664fyzPQ3LYp9jzWa034p7bmZ0DGZp2lrf4WagJqBNfZnPCMxeS-lD_VJVDc6H18_3MjA1xrhk4g93_QMb2LK_9tKMCO5UQWxEXGsroUruh2cdpWQj079ZuIo_kPvoA5b_8h0R5NswP7mkw_OxPjGFk/s320/002919_123329777_3995bdcd78e6db1ab42b4760bcdfa91a.webp" width="240" /></a></div><br />Orne Enchères, from Alençon in France, sells on 24 February 2024 a somewhat damaged large (60 by 46 cm) <a href="https://www.interencheres.com/meubles-objets-art/grande-vente-classique-624185/lot-75804831.html">drawing by Hélène Dehaussy</a>, estimated at 300 Euro.<p></p><p>I hadn't heard of the artist, and the auction gave no further info, but a swift search revealed an interesting but sad story. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk0TVLK-ZGIlloQDI6bEJqtH4dLm0tfiZMU5prJ7j-tIUYiSBhrRJ5HsA4U_tyTY5UeWmAeWzrb8mTSOIaTqZDNKd7DUV1FHbsvXjPhsYIImKqrlj8dFuMtcqy6pAGhO5ISlho-8lO9bCRWSJfmpO1A4fNkaUzShr775vox33wrK1dGFa9G0usjs70884/s1685/peronne-disp0118.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1685" data-original-width="1600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk0TVLK-ZGIlloQDI6bEJqtH4dLm0tfiZMU5prJ7j-tIUYiSBhrRJ5HsA4U_tyTY5UeWmAeWzrb8mTSOIaTqZDNKd7DUV1FHbsvXjPhsYIImKqrlj8dFuMtcqy6pAGhO5ISlho-8lO9bCRWSJfmpO1A4fNkaUzShr775vox33wrK1dGFa9G0usjs70884/s320/peronne-disp0118.jpg" width="304" /></a></div><br />She was said to be married to Jules Dehaussy, in which case I haven't been able to find her maiden name. But it seems more likely that she was his sister or daughter. The above very blurry image is all that remains of her self portrait, displayed at the 1885 Salon in Paris and later donated to the <a href="https://webmuseo.com/ws/musenor/app/collection/record/32937">Museum of Péronne</a> by her husband (or brother, or father), but sadly lost in the First World War (after a bombing or through looting).<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjId1uNf8AornQoKVVAxztt1aAHxLX68ulsV7NQJG1xd0H1-ctOnGxCJWMYzLb781bc4gfxNZlSFJ8wWV1Kl9ewBkdEvWVoOAJLMT-iiq5PjmWCq8qXg4crAQmpLNPfi0cs9A0w_M8rg8eoeyLWVd2oxfdM8j495LiCzkCfJvtL88Pw_C4KQtwPaPtLAJ8/s600/0002701.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="371" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjId1uNf8AornQoKVVAxztt1aAHxLX68ulsV7NQJG1xd0H1-ctOnGxCJWMYzLb781bc4gfxNZlSFJ8wWV1Kl9ewBkdEvWVoOAJLMT-iiq5PjmWCq8qXg4crAQmpLNPfi0cs9A0w_M8rg8eoeyLWVd2oxfdM8j495LiCzkCfJvtL88Pw_C4KQtwPaPtLAJ8/s320/0002701.JPG" width="198" /></a></div><br />A <a href="https://webmuseo.com/ws/musenor/app/collection/record/62310">picture of Hélène Dehaussy</a> with her sister (Cécile or Mathilde) can be found at the same website. <p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOGXs-NV2WgRYOSJtxCKf80rZzGsGkIIVBRK3C6S6PxU98twZqtgW6Gjb7dsgprtUXi7_Z7oSS3JC_YXrmkfSIYjn-dMP4AZayVISXP4mI2IGCHx5TZwyUL8AMDf-9xRzd8Z0XEXIb8GWdpbYJ7OEYYizBPKw5F5NoC345TLjMVKqQ3NDH7Im1uT7MBxo/s707/DehaussyChristies.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="707" data-original-width="613" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOGXs-NV2WgRYOSJtxCKf80rZzGsGkIIVBRK3C6S6PxU98twZqtgW6Gjb7dsgprtUXi7_Z7oSS3JC_YXrmkfSIYjn-dMP4AZayVISXP4mI2IGCHx5TZwyUL8AMDf-9xRzd8Z0XEXIb8GWdpbYJ7OEYYizBPKw5F5NoC345TLjMVKqQ3NDH7Im1uT7MBxo/s320/DehaussyChristies.JPG" width="277" /></a></div><br />She was a talented artist, mainly working in drawings it seems, e.g. this portrait or study of the head of a nude woman, sold at <a href="https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5066564">Christie's</a> in 2008 for £688 (and also <a href="https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5021191">sold the year before</a> for £525).<p></p><p>She must have been a modern, intelligent woman, e.g. following the congres of the French Société de l'Archéologie and going on their excursions in 1888. But on <a href="https://books.google.be/books?id=yaNBAAAAYAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=RA4-PA15&dq=%22h%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne+Dehaussy%22&hl=en&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22h%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne%20Dehaussy%22&f=false">12 November 1889</a>, she died, at a young age still, from some contagious disease which spread through France afterwards (but which I haven't been able to identify yet). She came from a family of artists and intellectuals, one of her sisters was married to historian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Lair">Jules Lair</a>. Her death was noted in the <a href="https://books.google.be/books?id=C8zlAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR16&dq=%22h%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne+Dehaussy%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjelZPErLyEAxU5U6QEHbWDDekQ6AF6BAgIEAI#v=onepage&q=%22h%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne%20Dehaussy%22&f=false">Magazine of Art</a>, which stated that she had first exhibited at the Salon in 1878.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpz_QCkI0v_nasX2hrEHi8FUq-POiWfUYMQrOyF4n6Hgy1R_6csBUgF1jExGRlOwRkPMSc0_jI5O8vk74MliPHOGtly7zV5FyqeNoqEYENtQSDKvavxG2zl33FZiZRrU-dv07SrximA5B-XUqdxcN9Q9Q4QPpX2f_5Gdzb5BU7mWVxetfooyKYttFSlUU/s1080/002919_8622659_414d8dccddcc7f201864eaa5cf0cc5a9.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="810" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpz_QCkI0v_nasX2hrEHi8FUq-POiWfUYMQrOyF4n6Hgy1R_6csBUgF1jExGRlOwRkPMSc0_jI5O8vk74MliPHOGtly7zV5FyqeNoqEYENtQSDKvavxG2zl33FZiZRrU-dv07SrximA5B-XUqdxcN9Q9Q4QPpX2f_5Gdzb5BU7mWVxetfooyKYttFSlUU/s320/002919_8622659_414d8dccddcc7f201864eaa5cf0cc5a9.webp" width="240" /></a></div><br />The work for sale is described as a "<span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.25px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Nu féminin à l'antique", </span>a female nude in the antique style, but tells more of a story, with the girl fishing for a frog. <p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOMg_V7p7K4pf5_OrwCiz2uQs5UluPaoV1cTMxXqa0QePiOT5cLSRd7mlVYrLMB-91Ku3pC-661a4QXVci_6O1K4Ozq8Zl5DfVS0kTjNAtyfu4VC64Bi-fAvF39-DPq7oyFL9U-ThH41dUX49faGFctlwGdl2eybrGnfjkA14RrA7S1D9gXIQ3ItobdJw/s1920/002919_493217979_c7a032c31bd7a977bb4cce01564342fd.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1920" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOMg_V7p7K4pf5_OrwCiz2uQs5UluPaoV1cTMxXqa0QePiOT5cLSRd7mlVYrLMB-91Ku3pC-661a4QXVci_6O1K4Ozq8Zl5DfVS0kTjNAtyfu4VC64Bi-fAvF39-DPq7oyFL9U-ThH41dUX49faGFctlwGdl2eybrGnfjkA14RrA7S1D9gXIQ3ItobdJw/s320/002919_493217979_c7a032c31bd7a977bb4cce01564342fd.webp" width="320" /></a></div><br />The reverse also has a partly removed exposition label, which seems genuine in this case. And sure enough, I could find this work, indeed titled "La pêcheuse de grenouilles" in two exhibitions, the "<a href="https://books.google.be/books?id=uwditphW2GwC&pg=PA25&dq=helene+dehaussy&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjSw6_smbqEAxWIUqQEHdyNAtMQ6AF6BAgHEAI#v=onepage&q=helene%20dehaussy&f=false">Exposition internationale de blanc et noir</a>" in 1886, and the more local 1888 exposition of the "<a href="https://books.google.be/books?id=yaNBAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA4-PA67&dq=%22Dehaussy+(H%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne)%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiSsuzcrbyEAxXRT6QEHQT3BjkQ6AF6BAgHEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Dehaussy%20(H%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne)%22&f=false">Société des Amis des Arts du Département de l'Eure</a>". And that final catalogue gave me the missing biographical elements; she was born on 31 October 1857, so just 32 years old when she died, apparently unmarried. She had exposed her work from when she was about 20 years old, appearing 4 times at the Paris Salon. But although she seemed to be fondly remembered by those who knew her, she sank into oblivion after her death, just like so many names from the lists of the Salons, only to reappear occasionally at some auction.<p></p>Francis Moutonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08107574903280657353noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1182607262530091408.post-56228347628060929722022-02-27T08:48:00.002+01:002022-02-27T08:48:49.740+01:00A key work by Firmin Baes<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiXZbFhlM4RouifIsJwyuTzySkRssdvY3YSRA9gomy2rge7ex9wsQOl4HN25TVRoEl9FOTd7HRCNSb3XYpFXOyPq_TibEq7vBOFZBLPa67FGJWtbUvv3VTRb4WkOGUpTGW-4KiEiNEEXt5Tcj323Upg5O2KWTUZiQnhvrPWoeuCbXXH-8Zg2gYjcg1f=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiXZbFhlM4RouifIsJwyuTzySkRssdvY3YSRA9gomy2rge7ex9wsQOl4HN25TVRoEl9FOTd7HRCNSb3XYpFXOyPq_TibEq7vBOFZBLPa67FGJWtbUvv3VTRb4WkOGUpTGW-4KiEiNEEXt5Tcj323Upg5O2KWTUZiQnhvrPWoeuCbXXH-8Zg2gYjcg1f=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbQsxNsUqaRD-z0XfhGDrKlbfwFGnaQm27dY4xPFd5wnosjfRTCQ1eQlbnGW_8LcWd4lEZnV3NUulCNLhkPpnvM1QXlfhE67s5dxFusK99fy-X1xSpBFOaSQnqQiB0uS9zLQgbKOMs1YWzdto2ouh0dQs_0_UK-wXblpJhU4RUHIG95buktk4JSebe=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbQsxNsUqaRD-z0XfhGDrKlbfwFGnaQm27dY4xPFd5wnosjfRTCQ1eQlbnGW_8LcWd4lEZnV3NUulCNLhkPpnvM1QXlfhE67s5dxFusK99fy-X1xSpBFOaSQnqQiB0uS9zLQgbKOMs1YWzdto2ouh0dQs_0_UK-wXblpJhU4RUHIG95buktk4JSebe=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Yesterday, 26 February 2022, an auction house in Coutances, France offered a large charcoal drawing by Belgian artist Firmin Baes:</span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">BAES Firmin (1874-1945) - "Concours de tir à l'arc" juin 1899 - fusain signé avec envoi - 87x112 cm - cadre en chêne mouluré 110x133 cm</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Estimation : 1000 - 1200 €</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Translated:</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">BAES Firmin (1874-1945) - "Archery contest" June 1899 - charcoal drawing signed with envoi - 87x112 cm - frame in moulded oak 110x133 cm</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Estimation : 1000 - 1200 €</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmLUgWItcvCJBAI-GARupTKro3rp8zws0krxeK1MSTdipdPdYCANCcFhXR0gdOTEAMxdFNuyBj3WaTV0V7wbjKdozVpNWa7rSwMTUk0sF7uvMqk2injyh2ZhkTIJ700OauJ7rbtDTxodrLHrMXqwvhCAMfks0XFsov6KAc7m0vlu89_AGDlMURZNf0=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmLUgWItcvCJBAI-GARupTKro3rp8zws0krxeK1MSTdipdPdYCANCcFhXR0gdOTEAMxdFNuyBj3WaTV0V7wbjKdozVpNWa7rSwMTUk0sF7uvMqk2injyh2ZhkTIJ700OauJ7rbtDTxodrLHrMXqwvhCAMfks0XFsov6KAc7m0vlu89_AGDlMURZNf0=s320" width="240" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-SuoeFKt4BzGHoe_CT9r1glHWtJyzCiDspwOpjOZXd2YdVCR1OMcbT84Q4hKyvezQGxWdIqCHhexmK78r7QJBEHRzMhTmDPYa-4aj92ckPyRGRB03nyQkjvpfce3vWyGX83pHXTKJWWKMM-nA86R9vib294NKmjBCy_R6K0uquSRYMcjXDHUNQyXS=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-SuoeFKt4BzGHoe_CT9r1glHWtJyzCiDspwOpjOZXd2YdVCR1OMcbT84Q4hKyvezQGxWdIqCHhexmK78r7QJBEHRzMhTmDPYa-4aj92ckPyRGRB03nyQkjvpfce3vWyGX83pHXTKJWWKMM-nA86R9vib294NKmjBCy_R6K0uquSRYMcjXDHUNQyXS=s320" width="240" /></a></div><br />It sold for 7,000 Euro instead (way above my bid), and there are three main elements for this: one is the sheer quality of the drawing, the other two need some effort, but it seems at least two bidders beside me knew this.<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjwDSnEqVrIyUVO51LLv6UXpfDWu0ImXqMNu4lQhqCtXWPhM95gep0_U_ZZW9g1S791pyjZfGQw-4Demwd7mTvQnRl4tE9gVnZcFPd5v107VjXiymAMowJhZtmkqGSDhDkpHdwMUFLDR4wV2k8n5r7rgLfaUXXAHgojngvhwohq53h5yu_qCY5hKwOs=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjwDSnEqVrIyUVO51LLv6UXpfDWu0ImXqMNu4lQhqCtXWPhM95gep0_U_ZZW9g1S791pyjZfGQw-4Demwd7mTvQnRl4tE9gVnZcFPd5v107VjXiymAMowJhZtmkqGSDhDkpHdwMUFLDR4wV2k8n5r7rgLfaUXXAHgojngvhwohq53h5yu_qCY5hKwOs=s320" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />Let's start with the dedication:</span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"To my dear Léon, on the occasion of his marriage, Firmin Baes, June 1899". </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;">Léon Frédéric (1856-1940) was one of the most succesful Belgian painters of the fin-de-siècle, winning gold medals at the Paris World Fairs of 1889 and 1900, and was made a Baron in 1909 (at the same time as James Ensor). His work is Symbolist / Realist in nature, influenced by the precision and style of the Early Netherlandish painters.</p><p style="text-align: left;">On <a href="https://www.patrimoineculturel.org/documents/fichier/1/2/20200519_080531province_de_namur___catalogue___leon_frederic.pdf" target="_blank">3 June 1899</a>, Frédéric married the painter Laurence Bastin. </p><p style="text-align: left;">And the link to Firmin Baes? Baes met Frédéric when he was still a child, and became his pupil and later collaborator and friend. </p><p style="text-align: left;">So this was the painting that Baes gave to his mentor for his marriage, indicating that it was an important work for Baes at the time. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Now, the second element which made this work more valuable than the auction house realised is the position it has in the career of Baes. In 1899, Baes was still a young and relatively unknown painter: by 1900, he was an internationally known rising star, after he won a bronze medal at the Paris Salon (at the time still hugely influential) for his large oil painting, "The Archers". Ah!</p><p style="text-align: left;">That painting seems to be in a private collection at the moment, and I haven't found a picture of it. But what we do have are some studies. </p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjJ8ZyASwEv2u222DCVHGN26607DsGQu_9H8DmIru4_azXIGzXbvmjqRQVta-fhPfwB4Q9O4U6rzwBTPqxZGmS2fpwXDUI34coY7wZh3qBHhzsInf-IjuxXGZQyABtnHTLZRUn4GSQilsabnyJEfjQCPpWfvk0RhDls0T6XckS-jLWsJjZACKTIb4Ow=s500" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="500" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjJ8ZyASwEv2u222DCVHGN26607DsGQu_9H8DmIru4_azXIGzXbvmjqRQVta-fhPfwB4Q9O4U6rzwBTPqxZGmS2fpwXDUI34coY7wZh3qBHhzsInf-IjuxXGZQyABtnHTLZRUn4GSQilsabnyJEfjQCPpWfvk0RhDls0T6XckS-jLWsJjZACKTIb4Ow=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br />The first and smallest is a rough sketch of the composition, which remained in the hands of the descendants of Baes until 1985, when they donated it to the <a href="https://www.fine-arts-museum.be/fr/la-collection/firmin-baes-etude-pour-les-tireurs-a-l-arc">Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels</a>. Bingo! It's the same composition, so the work for sale was a much more finished, large study for the work that launched his career and which he clearly considered as very important himself. <p></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEib1p7aL_Q5HWlVF-UW-v0uhpzaEROlqtYrmyMrA1W8An7y1BxFRzdIYYF1yU4NvrL7T29iF_lNZ3SnteZ69nJ6SpRU7rL7FREKVIyM5Kg5wLpmNiDJCua1ofvYPVbnmiO_gTsKgfG8S-DyYAgEYEMQHg-0G54yKMpPN4aQ2k1E-h7fPAQw-pGlnbry=s767" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="767" data-original-width="570" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEib1p7aL_Q5HWlVF-UW-v0uhpzaEROlqtYrmyMrA1W8An7y1BxFRzdIYYF1yU4NvrL7T29iF_lNZ3SnteZ69nJ6SpRU7rL7FREKVIyM5Kg5wLpmNiDJCua1ofvYPVbnmiO_gTsKgfG8S-DyYAgEYEMQHg-0G54yKMpPN4aQ2k1E-h7fPAQw-pGlnbry=s320" width="238" /></a></div><br />Final evidence for this is another similar study, this time for the right side of the painting, which is by coincidence for sale as well. <a href="https://www.lanczgallery.be/Artistes-5-Firmin_Baes">Lancz Gallery</a> offers this charcoal drawing. It's 68 by 51 cm, so it's not cut off from the work I discuss here, but conceived independently. But together they gave a very good idea of what the final work must have looked like, minus the colours of course. <p></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEioQRfUwJjYt3vb8t0oIrkNic8yokQCw7-PsI6g90p6bEdwb3tAKKoeunQlR0A3jkp5aLNtcBocJLG_0lZL2DuJewL2lZ7Ew4U4t_945e6tVgpey-Cf5rwdg_U-WshHFSOk1tu_-POYKiTZwznecJn9QRf4N8L78tyQSxrNAQp6EqX19NsrYoDskWBp=s1200" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="814" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEioQRfUwJjYt3vb8t0oIrkNic8yokQCw7-PsI6g90p6bEdwb3tAKKoeunQlR0A3jkp5aLNtcBocJLG_0lZL2DuJewL2lZ7Ew4U4t_945e6tVgpey-Cf5rwdg_U-WshHFSOk1tu_-POYKiTZwznecJn9QRf4N8L78tyQSxrNAQp6EqX19NsrYoDskWBp=s320" width="217" /></a></div><br />This work also has a dédication, "<em style="background-color: #fefefe; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: inherit;">à Monsieur et Madame Nélis bien affectueusement - Firmin Baes 1900" </em>, meaning "to Mr and Ms Nélis, with my affection". When one learns that in 1902, Firmin Baes would marry Maria Nélis (portrayed here in a beautiful charcoal portrait from 1901, for sale for 28,000 Euro at <a href="https://www.alexis-bordes.com/en/worksofart/new-acquisitions/pastels/article/maria-nelis-the-artist-s-future-wife/" target="_blank">Alexis Bordes</a>), it looks as if he gave this second study to his future inlaws, again indicating how important this painting was to the painter.<p></p>Francis Moutonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08107574903280657353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1182607262530091408.post-3965832732343959602021-11-14T09:39:00.005+01:002021-11-22T09:09:01.147+01:00The lost "Berry-Hill" portrait of Lady Jane Grey: an unrecognised gem at auction in the US<p><a href="https://bid.butterscotchauction.com/lots/view/1-56GPEA/anglo-dutch-school-17th-century " target="_blank"></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rK85YVnEgHA/YZDAtKFnx2I/AAAAAAAAK50/2POh4us4zu4p_NY1O9bqWnzMqhKrE5dSwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2000/H1061-L271982592_original.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1618" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rK85YVnEgHA/YZDAtKFnx2I/AAAAAAAAK50/2POh4us4zu4p_NY1O9bqWnzMqhKrE5dSwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/H1061-L271982592_original.jpg" width="259" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://bid.butterscotchauction.com/lots/view/1-56GPEA/english-school-16th-century" target="_blank">Butterscotch</a>, from Bedford, New York, sells on 21 November an "Anglo-Dutch School, 17th century" "Portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots", with a provenance of "Private collection, Scarsdale, NY": the unsigned oil on pnel is estimated at $5,000 to $10,000. <p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UrefhM666LE/YZDAyJAha4I/AAAAAAAAK6A/OtE5JC0Fn8Y-XgNlf6dCj2_R6A8GTqkJQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1424/H1061-L271982603.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1424" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UrefhM666LE/YZDAyJAha4I/AAAAAAAAK6A/OtE5JC0Fn8Y-XgNlf6dCj2_R6A8GTqkJQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/H1061-L271982603.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pL0N7TcMepo/YZDAyWpspBI/AAAAAAAAK58/o0C8EKr9MqgavoI4ZPsA1zpwc5qSJp1lQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2000/H1061-L271982629_original.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="2000" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pL0N7TcMepo/YZDAyWpspBI/AAAAAAAAK58/o0C8EKr9MqgavoI4ZPsA1zpwc5qSJp1lQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/H1061-L271982629_original.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uJUcPQxMLDg/YZDAyCUdToI/AAAAAAAAK54/IaOYixcw8wImpg2r9RjwvJshoJdXS8mQwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2000/H1061-L271982631_original.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="2000" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uJUcPQxMLDg/YZDAyCUdToI/AAAAAAAAK54/IaOYixcw8wImpg2r9RjwvJshoJdXS8mQwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/H1061-L271982631_original.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />The bad news is that this finely painted work probably isn't a portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots, who had on nearly all portraits a less rounded, sharper face. <p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_p6ywcOMyVk/YZDCnrBUrCI/AAAAAAAAK6U/h6eogrr0EZkIsLxO980emL2Cfg3wiNmjACLcBGAsYHQ/s777/60df0fc57de55320cef728636833e370.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="777" data-original-width="615" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_p6ywcOMyVk/YZDCnrBUrCI/AAAAAAAAK6U/h6eogrr0EZkIsLxO980emL2Cfg3wiNmjACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/60df0fc57de55320cef728636833e370.jpg" width="253" /></a></div><br />The remainder of tis post is good news though. This is another version of a portrait of Lady Jane Grey (1537-1554), the so-called "Nine Days' Queen". The most important portrait of her (until now!) was the <a href="https://www.syonpark.co.uk/userfiles/Lady%20Jane%20Grey%20Patrick%20Russell.pdf" target="_blank">Syon House portrait</a>. <p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q_mcQo2cnmo/YZDFo8QL9eI/AAAAAAAAK6c/3mzARMLt0l0UfhDKGI7FJCX-XEIzP6fAQCLcBGAsYHQ/s500/e4d52f889b933d9907e8fdb5a7e14223--lady-jane-grey-tudor-era.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="442" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q_mcQo2cnmo/YZDFo8QL9eI/AAAAAAAAK6c/3mzARMLt0l0UfhDKGI7FJCX-XEIzP6fAQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/e4d52f889b933d9907e8fdb5a7e14223--lady-jane-grey-tudor-era.jpg" width="283" /></a></div><br />Other version also exist, e.g. the above one.<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BzYMYEjDRmA/YZDGIq1lNDI/AAAAAAAAK6k/FwYCwNrGYZQCinCxv60Rtf-0POpTjwmDwCLcBGAsYHQ/s696/EvIgvDmXMAEKfMf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="696" data-original-width="492" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BzYMYEjDRmA/YZDGIq1lNDI/AAAAAAAAK6k/FwYCwNrGYZQCinCxv60Rtf-0POpTjwmDwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/EvIgvDmXMAEKfMf.jpg" width="226" /></a></div><br />But the few sites discussing the portraits of Jane Grey most lament the loss of the so-called "Berry-Hill" portrait, presumed lost since the 1960, and <a href="https://twitter.com/greyrevisited/status/1365189632103747585" target="_blank">presumed to be the model</a>, the original, for the above two portraits. <p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5hGIDqzR9c4/YZDGR-sP5ZI/AAAAAAAAK6o/b12lhjEmTrIrcpwYCsZWOgfs7mwwg9SggCLcBGAsYHQ/s1424/H1061-L271982603.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1424" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5hGIDqzR9c4/YZDGR-sP5ZI/AAAAAAAAK6o/b12lhjEmTrIrcpwYCsZWOgfs7mwwg9SggCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/H1061-L271982603.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NoxJoIQ14zU/YZDJQ0mryuI/AAAAAAAAK6w/2XWMO1mFK1UbaJ3Y9ZSgNXVBeSA3_IOXgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1024/berry-hillportrait.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="758" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NoxJoIQ14zU/YZDJQ0mryuI/AAAAAAAAK6w/2XWMO1mFK1UbaJ3Y9ZSgNXVBeSA3_IOXgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/berry-hillportrait.jpg" width="237" /></a></div><br />Hmm, doesn't that look an awful lot like the one for sale now? Now, to throw a spanner in the wheels, some sites claim that this is not a portrait of Jane Grey, but of her sister Katherine Grey, which would have served as a model for the later portrait of Jane Grey, painted posthumously. Which would be too bad, as Katherine, though important, wasn't a nine days' queen of course. But the most important of those sites, <a href="http://Katherinethequeen.com">Katherinethequeen.com</a>, does give a lot of information about this painting, including the following provenance; <p></p><p><span> </span>John Lumsden Propert (<em>d.</em>1902)</p><p> John Pierpont Morgan (<em>d.</em>1913)</p><p> Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York;</p><p> de-accessioned January 1956;</p><p> Parke-Bernet Galleries, sold 25 October 1956;</p><p> Berry-Hill Galleries, New York until at least 1961;</p><p> Current whereabouts unknown.»</p><p>Which is, well, wow! And nicely fits in with being in the US now, of course. </p><p>The sitter was given as "unknown" when with the Met, apparently, and is also said to be "<a href="http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/elizface.htm">Elisabeth I as a princess, ca. 1555</a>". Which wouldn't be too bad either, but seems out of the question: it is nearly certain to be one of the Grey sisters.</p><p>So, value? If this was believed by enough bidders to be the original portrait of Jane Grey, well, the sky is the limit. For Katherine Grey, I think the interest would be less, but it still should easily fetch the higher estimate. And in any case this find will make a lot of writers and sites very happy I think!</p><p><br /></p><p><b>UPDATE: sold for $120,000!</b></p>Francis Moutonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08107574903280657353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1182607262530091408.post-89838127045390469902021-10-05T20:00:00.007+02:002021-10-06T09:38:27.793+02:00François Félix Fescourt<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Y45ICqeykY8/YVxxLtthCPI/AAAAAAAAK3g/RlmpbmohR_4Q7xhAto3LGeVsjQSoKqyLgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/DSCN0011.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Y45ICqeykY8/YVxxLtthCPI/AAAAAAAAK3g/RlmpbmohR_4Q7xhAto3LGeVsjQSoKqyLgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/DSCN0011.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2ObJUhg8mC8/YVx47mj2RKI/AAAAAAAAK5A/g5xS10HudAswsL4iJiwCqRkH2OdiyomegCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/DSCN0008.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2ObJUhg8mC8/YVx47mj2RKI/AAAAAAAAK5A/g5xS10HudAswsL4iJiwCqRkH2OdiyomegCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/DSCN0008.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>I recently bought a lot of some 27 old, large (image about 20 by 27 cm) photographs depicting mainly Roman buildings and ruins in the Provence. For 15 of them, I was unable to find the name of the photographer, or in many cases other online examples of the same image. The other 12 formed a (complete?) set though, which is nice. <p></p><p>Now, I'm not a photography specialist at all, so it may well be that a lot of what I say here is either already wellknown or simply wrong: feel free to use the reply option below to post any corrections or additions of course. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5TMf2UlwriM/YVx4mEJyq2I/AAAAAAAAK40/H32HQQdLA6Aklf_CKinwUE56_1lxH-wigCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/DSCN0015.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5TMf2UlwriM/YVx4mEJyq2I/AAAAAAAAK40/H32HQQdLA6Aklf_CKinwUE56_1lxH-wigCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/DSCN0015.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />The photographer is François Félix Fescourt (1817-1881), from Nîmes. He starts working as a photographer around 1860, it is unknown what he did before. While he also worked as a portrait photographer, he is now mainly remembered for two things: a series of stereoscopic images of the Roman ruins in and around Nîmes, and a booklet (about postcard-sized) of photos of the same, with an explanatory text on the back of each image. <p></p><p>His large size images of the ruins seem to be much less known though; of the twelve, I could find five which were elsewhere attributed to him (either like this, or in a smaller format only), and five which were known but not attributed to him: the other two seem to be completely unknown. </p><p>In at least two cases, unsigned works by Fescourt were attributed to Édouard Baldus (1813-1889), a much better known and highly sought after early photographer who photographed many of the same locations, often in a very similar way. </p><p><a href="https://www.catawiki.com/fr/l/38895061-edouard-denis-baldus-1813-1882-attributed-to-exterieur-de-l-amphitheatre-arenes-nimes-ca-1865" target="_blank">Catawiki</a> sold the above image of the Arena of Nîmes as "attributed to Baldus" for 220 Euro last year. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lCZTuYwKE5w/YVxy7FdEyQI/AAAAAAAAK30/-fT6hwLvlsQQL1r_zkcdJ-NN76nrhJ0cACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/DSCN0009.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lCZTuYwKE5w/YVxy7FdEyQI/AAAAAAAAK30/-fT6hwLvlsQQL1r_zkcdJ-NN76nrhJ0cACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/DSCN0009.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><i><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Fescourt, interior of the Temple of Diana in Nîmes</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7smb9RJLJCE/YVxzEv6ECvI/AAAAAAAAK34/UOcYdWw0zw4xKzb1pmO3IQNaNV4AfXVFACLcBGAsYHQ/s1918/AderBaldus.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1078" data-original-width="1918" height="180" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7smb9RJLJCE/YVxzEv6ECvI/AAAAAAAAK34/UOcYdWw0zw4xKzb1pmO3IQNaNV4AfXVFACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/AderBaldus.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Attributed to Baldus (Ader enchères)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wTYEm5SVO14/YVxzznjE6YI/AAAAAAAAK4E/m00MhRGAfwk38YSepNm3fhzZAOydxKbNgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/RP-F-F80124.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1427" data-original-width="2048" height="223" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wTYEm5SVO14/YVxzznjE6YI/AAAAAAAAK4E/m00MhRGAfwk38YSepNm3fhzZAOydxKbNgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/RP-F-F80124.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Attributed to Baldus (Rijksmuseum)</div><i><br /></i></div></i>Hard to blame them though, as specialists <a href="https://www.ader-paris.fr/lot/103585/12755384?npp=50&offset=50&" target="_blank">Ader</a> did the same in the same period: 9 photograps (sadly only two shown) attributed to Baldus, sold for 1920 Euro together. The 7 which aren't shown all have a subject which is also included in my set of 12, so I suppose that they all are by Fescourt. When one compares the Fescourt photo with one which probably is by Baldus (found at the <a href="https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/RP-F-F80124" target="_blank">Rijksmuseum</a> site), the confusion becomes understandable. <p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9PbgL4lK9t8/YVx08jvzmKI/AAAAAAAAK4M/eDyLk6nPLyYEzYl1aWiOTH8qnvelYOTMQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/DSCN0007.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9PbgL4lK9t8/YVx08jvzmKI/AAAAAAAAK4M/eDyLk6nPLyYEzYl1aWiOTH8qnvelYOTMQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/DSCN0007.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />Similarly, one of the unknown photos, a stunning view of the Pont du Gard, resembles the work of Baldus as well. <p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7pCos8-9vss/YVx2qmfKWWI/AAAAAAAAK4U/aLiy4oBlEWsB967lrbf55NKh7TrLXxmEwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/DSCN0010.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7pCos8-9vss/YVx2qmfKWWI/AAAAAAAAK4U/aLiy4oBlEWsB967lrbf55NKh7TrLXxmEwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/DSCN0010.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Q6sCCrNm730/YVx2wOHS8eI/AAAAAAAAK4Y/XDWRnUA1srsqBGB3GCwsEooxCAgYRVLXwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/DSCN0016.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Q6sCCrNm730/YVx2wOHS8eI/AAAAAAAAK4Y/XDWRnUA1srsqBGB3GCwsEooxCAgYRVLXwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/DSCN0016.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Two other photographs are known (without an attribution to an artist) from the Hallwyl museum in Stockholm, having been personally bought by founder Wilhelmina von Hallwyl during her trip in southern France in 1880-1881: an <a href="http://emuseumplus.lsh.se/eMuseumPlus?service=direct/1/ResultDetailView/result.tab.link&sp=10&sp=Scollection&sp=SelementList&sp=0&sp=0&sp=999&sp=SdetailView&sp=0&sp=Sdetail&sp=0&sp=F&sp=SdetailBlockKey&sp=1" target="_blank">exterior view of the temple of Diana</a>, and a view of the <a href="http://emuseumplus.lsh.se/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=9561&viewType=detailView" target="_blank">Maison Carrée</a>.<div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wTa87wh-LNA/YVx3hhxVnAI/AAAAAAAAK4g/gS9oCGOgISw4WdDQLyXZMUA7CMSUfTf5QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1200/BaldusCarree.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="959" data-original-width="1200" height="256" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wTa87wh-LNA/YVx3hhxVnAI/AAAAAAAAK4g/gS9oCGOgISw4WdDQLyXZMUA7CMSUfTf5QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/BaldusCarree.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Baldus</i></div><br />Remarkable in that second image is that the background has been, well, photoshopped; the Maison Carrée is surrounded by houses, but looks better without them. This again is something Fescourt seems to have copied from Baldus, as can be seen in this image from the <a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/287344" target="_blank">Metropolitan Museum</a> collection.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bQEvlkdV7fo/YVx4SieHLzI/AAAAAAAAK4o/-O-Nd-EgF-0g2rDHi0IiB_DdOpv070mHwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/DSCN0005.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bQEvlkdV7fo/YVx4SieHLzI/AAAAAAAAK4o/-O-Nd-EgF-0g2rDHi0IiB_DdOpv070mHwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/DSCN0005.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><br />An image of the cathedral of Nîmes is known at <a href="https://www.ribapix.com/cathedral-of-notre-dame-et-st-castor-nimes_riba60801#" target="_blank">Ribapix</a>, but again without the name of the artist and with a slightly too late date. </div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N4V9DTw7kmU/YVx5keg4PrI/AAAAAAAAK5I/VjYsJ9rjCmwHXLMdoY8OToNKREvwN2-kACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/DSCN0023.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N4V9DTw7kmU/YVx5keg4PrI/AAAAAAAAK5I/VjYsJ9rjCmwHXLMdoY8OToNKREvwN2-kACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/DSCN0023.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zhtfIesKUdA/YVx5kaJqpMI/AAAAAAAAK5Q/9S-_Z_w28Q4gY1azqWxVu0j4nsErZVgCACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/DSCN0025.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zhtfIesKUdA/YVx5kaJqpMI/AAAAAAAAK5Q/9S-_Z_w28Q4gY1azqWxVu0j4nsErZVgCACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/DSCN0025.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-um2r0CFaf7s/YVx5kQzfAjI/AAAAAAAAK5M/JY3NpmHOulUnAcqxoWvZWP_KdqU7xedogCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/DSCN0034.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-um2r0CFaf7s/YVx5kQzfAjI/AAAAAAAAK5M/JY3NpmHOulUnAcqxoWvZWP_KdqU7xedogCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/DSCN0034.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />The other 15 images, for which I sadly haven't found the artists, are in somewhat worse condition overall, and seem to range from the 1850s to ca. 1900. A real specialist should take a look at them presumably. </div>Francis Moutonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08107574903280657353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1182607262530091408.post-59891514564740335612021-08-06T16:52:00.000+02:002021-08-06T16:52:48.680+02:00The Prodigal Son<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wCWmPKlzClU/YQwQ8CjFW5I/AAAAAAAAK04/wziB6VHvJxMm-oy4h4lbtBAfIDDeOJiDgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1917/HortaProdigal.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1077" data-original-width="1917" height="180" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wCWmPKlzClU/YQwQ8CjFW5I/AAAAAAAAK04/wziB6VHvJxMm-oy4h4lbtBAfIDDeOJiDgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/HortaProdigal.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><a href="http://www.horta.be/default.asp?sCode=DESCRIPTION-NL&sale=301&id=165783&page_nbr=6" target="_blank">Horta</a>, from Belgium, sells on 6 September 2021 a "Flemish School, 18th century" "Return of the Prodigal Son", estimated at 3,000 to 5,000 Euro. </p><p>This large work (105 by 167 cm) actually depicts the complete story of the Prodigal Son in multiple scenes (a system much more in use in the 15th and early 16th century, but completely out of fashion in the 17th and 18th century). The work may have been somewhat cut down, especially the right side seems to be incomplete. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y8jzu1bKcLo/YQwRDoL4pdI/AAAAAAAAK08/fiF5vycPvIk8gwOGN0W3CDckJXRULJo7wCLcBGAsYHQ/s363/HortaProdigalDetJaar.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="165" data-original-width="363" height="145" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y8jzu1bKcLo/YQwRDoL4pdI/AAAAAAAAK08/fiF5vycPvIk8gwOGN0W3CDckJXRULJo7wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/HortaProdigalDetJaar.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><br />It is dated 1617, and I see no reason to disregard this date (although it could be the date of some original, with this being a later copy). The symbol between the 16 and the 17 may be a monogram, but I'm unable to decipher it. <p></p><p>And speaking of originals, this work seems to be based on some engravings after David Vinckboons (1576-1631), which again ties in with the date on the painting. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qp12hUY8eO0/YQwSG1gGzMI/AAAAAAAAK1I/3R0Fe-c28r0JAl0FaZkB_OgDe87nydKEACLcBGAsYHQ/s863/HortaProdigalDet1.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="863" data-original-width="811" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qp12hUY8eO0/YQwSG1gGzMI/AAAAAAAAK1I/3R0Fe-c28r0JAl0FaZkB_OgDe87nydKEACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/HortaProdigalDet1.PNG" width="301" /></a></div><br />The story starts bottom left, with the departure of the prodigal son. <p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rOUYF1w0amA/YQwSpohwx1I/AAAAAAAAK1Q/p5UqwNf8m4E-f53gtLm6UB1MoRyREYRGgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/RP-P-1894-A-18372.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1599" data-original-width="2048" height="250" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rOUYF1w0amA/YQwSpohwx1I/AAAAAAAAK1Q/p5UqwNf8m4E-f53gtLm6UB1MoRyREYRGgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/RP-P-1894-A-18372.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />It is unclear what the original may be for this depiction: this 1608 engraving after Vinckboons (found at the <a href="https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-P-1894-A-18372" target="_blank">Rijksmuseum</a> site) certainly shares some elements (like the flowing cape of the son). <p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WFjdJTiiLQ4/YQwUF15DigI/AAAAAAAAK1Y/wFeOSH48wr0z6RYvsaiUlyQX3Pg1g1n0ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/RP-P-1889-A-15011.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1553" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WFjdJTiiLQ4/YQwUF15DigI/AAAAAAAAK1Y/wFeOSH48wr0z6RYvsaiUlyQX3Pg1g1n0ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/RP-P-1889-A-15011.jpg" width="243" /></a></div><br />But other elements like the horse seem to come from a Nicolaes de Bruyn engraving (again via the <a href="https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-P-1889-A-15011" target="_blank">Rijksmuseum</a>), without an exact date (probably 1600-1630, so within the range of the painting's date). <p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DYZlEspuA2k/YQwWPJ6KWaI/AAAAAAAAK1g/_vfkXpGwVt0i7uKbTaSxy-5qXxDWfZHJACLcBGAsYHQ/s874/HortaProdigalDet2.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="874" data-original-width="546" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DYZlEspuA2k/YQwWPJ6KWaI/AAAAAAAAK1g/_vfkXpGwVt0i7uKbTaSxy-5qXxDWfZHJACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/HortaProdigalDet2.PNG" width="200" /></a></div><br />The story then jumps to bottom right, with the prodigal son wasting his money on booze and women. This part seems incomplete. <p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ly8FP3-Gfh4/YQwWw7kkIDI/AAAAAAAAK1o/3MmhdApS2GoJWRjgOYbsS301HsktNVYXwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/RP-P-OB-2387.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1588" data-original-width="2048" height="248" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ly8FP3-Gfh4/YQwWw7kkIDI/AAAAAAAAK1o/3MmhdApS2GoJWRjgOYbsS301HsktNVYXwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/RP-P-OB-2387.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />It again has no clear, one-on-one counterpart in engravings I could find, but the main source of inspiration again seems to be Vinckboons (via the <a href="https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-P-OB-2387" target="_blank">Rijksmuseum</a>). <p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nXHFMz4Ncjk/YQwXa6eYvDI/AAAAAAAAK10/wib_lhhqWXQS-8ohosg01BIcZmpLZmu_gCLcBGAsYHQ/s681/HortaProdigalDet2stick.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="681" data-original-width="436" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nXHFMz4Ncjk/YQwXa6eYvDI/AAAAAAAAK10/wib_lhhqWXQS-8ohosg01BIcZmpLZmu_gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/HortaProdigalDet2stick.PNG" width="205" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ISsXcEgMZIw/YQwXawXkOmI/AAAAAAAAK1w/OgJi02aTrh40TTwfe7oPJEhUOV4GrrJWwCLcBGAsYHQ/s734/VinckboonsDet.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="734" data-original-width="218" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ISsXcEgMZIw/YQwXawXkOmI/AAAAAAAAK1w/OgJi02aTrh40TTwfe7oPJEhUOV4GrrJWwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/VinckboonsDet.PNG" width="95" /></a></div><br />A small detail in both works is the inn keeper adding the drinks to the tab (the proverbial "Kerfstok" in Dutch). <p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aCSzfsuoB0U/YQwYgQgeTWI/AAAAAAAAK18/tw5UaY9aw04I2u-Y36QmZVwa7He8PixsACLcBGAsYHQ/s938/BoijmansProdigal.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="701" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aCSzfsuoB0U/YQwYgQgeTWI/AAAAAAAAK18/tw5UaY9aw04I2u-Y36QmZVwa7He8PixsACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/BoijmansProdigal.PNG" width="239" /></a></div><br />Here as well a Nicolaes de Bruyn engraving may be an alternative source of inspiration (found at the <a href="https://www.boijmans.nl/en/collection/artworks/119252/the-prodigal-son-squandering-his-money" target="_blank">Boijmans Van Beuningen</a> site).<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lNe0faYiSUk/YQwZFXGpn7I/AAAAAAAAK2E/qNNhLAZ8SOgF6G3XD026o8SzBmIBriWfACLcBGAsYHQ/s890/HortaProdigalDet3.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="890" data-original-width="596" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lNe0faYiSUk/YQwZFXGpn7I/AAAAAAAAK2E/qNNhLAZ8SOgF6G3XD026o8SzBmIBriWfACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/HortaProdigalDet3.PNG" width="214" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH0tFbRsBSY/YQwZRKxHdrI/AAAAAAAAK2I/0F5PoyiEv_Y3a8_z3M3g4uyHZrjQEs_WACLcBGAsYHQ/s630/VinckboonsDet2.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="542" data-original-width="630" height="275" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XH0tFbRsBSY/YQwZRKxHdrI/AAAAAAAAK2I/0F5PoyiEv_Y3a8_z3M3g4uyHZrjQEs_WACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/VinckboonsDet2.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><br />In the third scene (upper left), the son has spent all his money and is chased away by the women at the inn. And this image is taken directly from the same engraving by Vinckboons as in scene 2, with the woman in the window throwing beer (or emptying the chamber pot?) on him. <p></p><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hZbw7on6Rdk/YQ0DWqWDe2I/AAAAAAAAK2U/Cp7h1EQ1cjwYrVINtx1z2_lyv-R7Pc-OgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1083/HortaProdigalDet4.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="665" data-original-width="1083" height="196" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hZbw7on6Rdk/YQ0DWqWDe2I/AAAAAAAAK2U/Cp7h1EQ1cjwYrVINtx1z2_lyv-R7Pc-OgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/HortaProdigalDet4.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><br />The fourth scene depicts the son as a swineherd. </div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wgLnuUrMugU/YQ0u_fMpAaI/AAAAAAAAK2c/PvCDlgCoW9UpzgY3dIQywjgfaDNrCN0xACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/RP-P-1894-A-18374.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1601" data-original-width="2048" height="250" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wgLnuUrMugU/YQ0u_fMpAaI/AAAAAAAAK2c/PvCDlgCoW9UpzgY3dIQywjgfaDNrCN0xACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/RP-P-1894-A-18374.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />This one seems based on <a href="https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/RP-P-1894-A-18374">Vinckboons</a> as well, although the depiction is pretty generic.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3-EdW6a8L_w/YQ0vQNgqj1I/AAAAAAAAK2k/ECJE-VfJK6Usj13wMCcTK2Wgsxb1DnfegCLcBGAsYHQ/s863/HortaProdigalDet5.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="589" data-original-width="863" height="218" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3-EdW6a8L_w/YQ0vQNgqj1I/AAAAAAAAK2k/ECJE-VfJK6Usj13wMCcTK2Wgsxb1DnfegCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/HortaProdigalDet5.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><br />And the fifth and final scene is the return home, with the embrace with his father and behind them the slaughter of the fat ox.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XBQpJRTDl9M/YQ0wFkAvM_I/AAAAAAAAK2s/U2KDhVMuQkgl0phYVjXv_g1JIHnVXj52ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/RP-P-1894-A-18375.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1587" data-original-width="2048" height="248" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XBQpJRTDl9M/YQ0wFkAvM_I/AAAAAAAAK2s/U2KDhVMuQkgl0phYVjXv_g1JIHnVXj52ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/RP-P-1894-A-18375.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />And that one as well is close to a Vinckboons I found at the <a href="https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/RP-P-1894-A-18375" target="_blank">Rijksmuseum</a> site.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Perhaps the painting for sale is based on an unknown Vinckboons painting, or perhaps the artist tried to create a singl work incorporating all main aspects of the story from some Vinckboons' prints (and perhaps others), is hard to tell. But the result is an intriguing, original work, where I have little reason to doubt the 1617 date. It should very easily surpass the estimate. </div>Francis Moutonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08107574903280657353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1182607262530091408.post-59903864687118754122020-07-16T17:00:00.000+02:002020-07-17T16:01:41.537+02:00Finding the artist behind a set of engravings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://www.interencheres.com/meubles-objets-art/meubles-et-objets-mobilier-a-lhotel-des-ventes-277061/lot-24607564.html">Gers Gascogne</a>, from France, sells on 17 July 2020 a series of 12 "old" engravings showing the months, in 4 frames, with an estimate of 40 to 60 Euro.<br />
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This seemed cheap, so I tried to find who the artists were behind this series (both the designer and the engraver). Sadly, the images are rather blurry, so I had trouble deciphering the texts on the engravings.<br />
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Only for the January example was a somewhat better example available, which seemed to show that no indication of engraver or publisher was visible on the engraving. But it made the inscription readable, and thus searchable.<br />
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The line "Lignis instrue focum" appears on an engraving of January by Lucas van Doetecum. Wow, good news, the van Doetecums were some of the most important engravers of the late 16th century, working for Hieronymus Cox and e.g. engraving a lot of works of Pieter Bruegel. Google linked me to the <a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/653365">Met Museum</a>, which owns a copy and described the inscription. Too bad, no image available. The dimensions seem wrong though, 26 by 35 cm vs. the 18 by 23 for the lot for sale.<br />
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I also found another set of engravings with the same inscription, this time at the <a href="https://rbmecat.patrimonionacional.es/bib/32604">Escorial</a>, by Petrus van der Borcht. Again, no image... Size was 20 by 24, so a lot closer to the ones here, and a possible match. Oh no, they say the inscription on theirs is "Januar.", while we are looking for "Januarius"...<br />
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But <a href="https://rbmecat.patrimonionacional.es/bib/32805">the same site</a> also has a set of 12 by Van Doetecum, and this time the dimensions are 20 by 24cm, so perhaps this is the one we are looking for? But again the inscription is "Ianuar.", not "Ianuarius".<br />
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Which brings us to the final of the just <a href="https://www.google.be/search?source=hp&ei=7x8QX7nuFIWzsAf0jIWQDQ&q=%22lignis+instrue+focum%22&oq=%22lignis+instrue+focum%22&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQAzoFCAAQsQM6CwguELEDEMcBEKMCOggIABCxAxCDAToICC4QsQMQgwE6AggAOgIILjoFCC4QsQM6CwguELEDEMcBEK8BOggILhDHARCjAjoLCC4QxwEQowIQkwI6CAguEMcBEK8BOgQIABAKOgoILhDHARCvARAKOggIABAWEAoQHjoGCAAQFhAeOgUIIRCgAToHCCEQChCgAToECCEQFVDKBVi-L2CjMmgAcAB4AIABjwGIAY4RkgEFMTIuMTCYAQCgAQGqAQdnd3Mtd2l6&sclient=psy-ab&ved=0ahUKEwj5oafavNHqAhWFGewKHXRGAdIQ4dUDCAc&uact=5">four Google hits</a> for this three-word search: the graphical collection of the <a href="http://graficheincomune.comune.milano.it/GraficheInComune/opere/bertarelli/Albo+E">Milan Library</a>. Clicking through brought me a <a href="http://graficheincomune.comune.milano.it/GraficheInComune/scheda/Albo+E+216,+tav.+1">dedicated page</a> for this very engraving, with an image. Finally, success! It's not a complete match though, as this one has a location and artist mentioned: Cologne (Coloniae Agrippinae), and "Ian Buchsmachr".<br />
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Not a name I'm familiar with, and one for which very little information is available it seems. <a href="https://books.google.be/books?id=TNZiAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA36&lpg=PA36&dq=%22buchsmachr%22&source=bl&ots=IYS2sODx_7&sig=ACfU3U2SufK5nfffGTsn8bY16rxdM_4Lrw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiPwLf0wNHqAhUFCuwKHUB6C88Q6AEwAHoECAMQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22buchsmachr%22&f=false">An old book on German engraving</a> claimed that this set of 12 months was made by Mathias Quad. <a href="https://archive.org/details/sammlunglannapra02sing/page/106/mode/2up?q=buchsmachr">Another book</a>, from 1895 this time, claims that one set can be found in Dresden and is there attributed to Adriaen Collaert. I can't find any recent images of works by either Quad or Collaert showing these engravings though. I did learn that Buchsmachr is better known as Johann Bussemacher, engraver and printer (mainly of maps, often engraved by Quad) active around 1600 in Cologne.<br />
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So, now we know that some (original? later?) version was printed in Germany around 1600. Which tells us nothing about the one for sale here, nor about who designed and engraved it originally (if not Bussemacher).<br />
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And then a long and rather frustrating image search followed, having exhausted all text researches. I'll not tire you with all things I didn't found, let it suffice that in the end I came across a completely different artist <span style="font-family: inherit;">and region: <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Étienne Delaune</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> (1518-1583). He made multiple series of the 12 months, this is the first one from 1561. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">But (and with these engravings, the number of "buts"has been impressive), the ones for sale are not the original ones by Delaune, or at least not the first state, which had a more "handwritten" lettering, and no numbers to the right of the months.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">A version which looks (from the very small pictures) to be the same as the one for sale here (though obviously in better condition) was sold at Bassenge in 2014 for 1,800€, wow! Interestingly, they reference some literature about these engravings, which give Gerard van Groeninge as a possible designer, and link them to the series of 12 months by Van Doetecum, which was the first thing I encountered in my search! The circle is round after all, even though the ones for sale are sadly not the Van Doetecum works, nor the first state of the Delaune ones. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">So at the end of all this, I know who the original engraver of these 12 works was, although I don't know yet who was the artist of the designs; I still haven't found any other copies of the versions I am researching though, only two others sets (the original set in two states, and the Cologne version), which is a bit frustrating. Because they don't bear the name of the engraver or publisher, they probably are usually catalogued as anonymous or with a wrong attribution. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">If they were in good condition, I would have bid on them, but as it stands, and taking into account shipping costs, I'll pass, though with some regret. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b>UPDATE: sold for 1,200 Euro, 30 times the estimate!</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The same auction has some other lots which are mainly interesting if you can pick them up yourselves, avoiding shipping and handling costs. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><a href="https://www.interencheres.com/meubles-objets-art/meubles-et-objets-mobilier-a-lhotel-des-ventes-277061/lot-24607645.html">Lot 75</a> is an engraving with an "undecipherable" signature, which is a 1648 work "Pater Familias" by Adriaen van Ostade. Looks like a later copy though, but at 5 to 8 Euro you can't really go wrong here.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b>UPDATE: sold for 55 Euro</b>, a much more logical price.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><a href="https://www.interencheres.com/meubles-objets-art/meubles-et-objets-mobilier-a-lhotel-des-ventes-277061/lot-24607651.html">Lot 105</a> is a Picasso Domino, estimated at 8 to 15 Euro. This was originally a limited edition (some 2000 copies) from 1960,in which case it is worth around 200 to 300 Euro. Later (post-1985) versions exist, with a CE mark and without certificate, and these are worth around 50 Euro. A good buy in any case. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b>UPDATE; sold for 70 Euro.</b></span></span><br />
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<br />Francis Moutonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08107574903280657353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1182607262530091408.post-9211338483585222802020-07-13T17:00:00.000+02:002020-07-13T17:00:10.527+02:00Johanna van Frijtom<div>
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<a href="https://www.andersonandgarland.com/auction/lot/744-johanna-van-frytom---oil/?lot=239589&so=0&st=&sto=0&au=358&ef=&et=&ic=False&sd=0&pp=100&pn=4&g=-1">Anderson & Garland</a>, of England, sell on 15 July 2020 a "Johanna van Frytom" Vertumnus and Pomona, estimated at £400 to £600.<br />
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Johanna van Frijtom (1662-1740) (also: Jannetje Frijtom) was one of the rare female painters in the seventeenth century. Born and living in Delft, she was the daughter of (porcelain) painter Frederick van Frijtom and Pauline "Lijntje" Stevens. Only some 5 paintings by Johanna are attested, including one with card players in a collection in Stockholm, and a portrait of a lady which was sold in 1830 in Brussels (and which may be the same as a self portrait in the inventory of her father), and a portrait of her father? </div>
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The other two are both depictions of Vertumnus and Pomona, one in the City Museum "Het Prinsenhof" in Delft, and the one for sale here. The one in Delft (image via the <a href="https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/images/3434">RKD</a>) is slightly larger (60 by 55 instead of 56 by 47).<br />
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The work in Delft (and thus also the one for sale now) is clearly inspired by a work by Thomas van der Wilt (or the 1688 engraving by Jan Brouwer, shown from the <a href="https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-P-1906-3012">Rijksmuseum</a>). Not only the two persons, but also her walking stick, the stone vase, the bird, ...<br />
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According to the "<a href="http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/lemmata/data/Frytom">Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon Nederland</a>", the version of the Vertumnus for sale now was sold in 1983 as a work by her father.<br />
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<a href="https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/johanna-van-frytom-dutch-17th-century-vertumnus-a-560-c-c21c0afc13">Invaluable</a> shows that it was offered for sale at Cheffin's in 2009, with an estimate of £3,000 to £5,000 at the time, but remained unsold. It was then in a "private collection, Newcastle", and the current sale is in Newcastle... It is not clear whether they had a much better photograph, or whether the painting has considerably deteriorated in the last 10 years. In either case you will get a better painting (now of after cleaning) than the auction seems to show.<br />
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In itself, it is a reasonable but far from brilliant painting, based on (but not purely copied from) an engraving: even then, £400 would be cheap, but not by much.<br />
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However, as a signed work by one of the few female painters active in the Netherlands (or anywhere for that matter) around 1700, it is very cheap, and a unique chance to acquire a work by her. It is not at the level of works by Ruysch, Peeters, Leyster or Wautier, but most of us can't afford paintings by these anyway. It should fetch at least a few thousands pounds if enough collectors and museums realise its rarity.<br />
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Francis Moutonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08107574903280657353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1182607262530091408.post-15632039210430458932020-05-14T20:00:00.001+02:002020-06-29T12:54:38.581+02:00Finding the identity of the sitter and the provenance of a portrait from 1560<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The portrait has an indication "Aetatis Suae XXXIII" (second image is same as first one, but adjusted for readability).<br />
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At the bottom, the sitter is writing a text, which (once one finds a picture with enough detail, and once it is turned upside down) is surprisingly readable. Even so, the signature is hard to decipher.<br />
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The text reads, as far as I can tell:<br />
"* Espor me conforte *"<br />
"en comfortant en tant entierement"<br />
"en sien esivent(?) tant puisant"<br />
"atonieme(?) inevemse(?) fortneta(?) et neve(?)"<br />
"afin que glerifit(?) son intoneta(?)"<br />
"nom en anga(?)" "1560"<br />
"D. Aellaein(?)"<br />
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The text seems to be in French, but there is too much that I can't decipher to really give a translation of it.<br />
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The only things that made a search possible were the year (1560) and the title or motto at the top of the page. I hadn't much hope, but was pleasantly surprised when I found the following in, of all places, the library of the Theological Seminary of Princeton University; "Anna Maria van Schurman" by Dr. G. D. J. Schotel, preacher in Tilburg (the Netherlands), published in 1853.<br />
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On <a href="https://archive.org/details/annamariavanschu00scho/page/46/mode/2up/search/espor+me+conforte">page 47</a>, as a footnote to the first addendum, I read the following text:<br />
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Translated this gives:<br />
"The first Alewijn was Dirck Alewijn, married to Cornelia Cannius, whose portrait, with a writing pen in the hand and a four-lined poem in front of him, topped with; Espor me conforte, still resides with the Alewijn family. This portrait shows him aged 33 and is dated to 1560."<br />
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Which is a perfect match, down to the name of the sitter (Alewijn) and the signature (Aellaein).<br />
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So, how did this painting end up in Switzerland instead of being in the hands of the family? Some nefarious WWII related story? Apparently not, as the article "<a href="https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_gid001188601_01/_gid001188601_01_0017.php">De familieportretten der Alewijns</a>" ("the family portraits of the Alewijns") in "De Gids" (kind of a literary journal) in 1886 described "<span style="background-color: #f3f4f5; font-family: "noto serif", arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: 32px;">de onlangs verkochte verzameling Alewijn" </span>("the recently sold collection Alewijn") as one of those collections which hadn't been "polluted" by unrelared portraits through the centuries.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f4f5; font-family: "noto serif", arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: 32px;">Niet langs kunstmatigen weg ontstaan, maar ongeschonden overleverende aan de nakomelingschap wat in den loop der eeuwen op ongezochte wijze was bijeengekomen, toont zij ons in allen eenvoud en natuurlijkheid een belangwekkende reeks van Hollandsche burgers, die wij, even als wij ze door de verschillende generatiën hunner genealogie kunnen volgen, op paneel of doek zien gebracht door de verschillende kunstgeneratiën van schilders, die we van de onbekende meesters der zestiende eeuw zien opklimmen tot Moreelse, de Keyser en Santvoort, om, langs Maes, op de Musscher, op Quinkhard en op nog minder, te dalen. In deze geregelde volledigheid zonder overlading, overtreft de galerij Alewijn de meeste familie-galerijen die in ons land in den laatsten tijd, hetzij onder den hamer gekomen, hetzij door de zorg des laatsten eigenaars in hun geheel aan de openbare Musea toevertrouwd zijn.</span><br />
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Translation:<br />
"Not created through an artificial way, but transmitting unchanged to the heirs whatever had come together throughout the centuries, it shows us in all simplicity and naturally an important series of Dutch citizens, which we, just like we can follow them through different generations of their family tree, see brought on panel or canvas by the different art generations of painters, who we see climbing from the unknown masters of the 16th century to Moreelse, de Keyser and Santvoort, and then, by Maes, see descending at De Musscher, at Quinkhard, and even lower. In this well-ruled completeness without overabundance, the gallery Alewijn surpasses most family galleries which in this country have recently been sold at auction or have been entrusted completely to public museums by the care of the last owners."<br />
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Rather flowery language, but it tells us that the paintings were at the time all considered to be true Alewijn portraits (good), that the 16th century ones were by unknown masters (ah, too bad), and that the collection also contained works by or attributed to major and minor masters.<br />
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<a href="https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/173899">RKD</a>: Cornelis Van der Voort, 1617, portrait of Dirck Alewijn (presumably a nephew of the sitter in the portrait for sale): current whereabouts unknown. Was attributed to Moreelse at the 1885 sale.</div>
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The same sitter also returns in a drawing by Wallerant Vaillant, together with a pendant showing his wife Maria Schurman</div>
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<a href="https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/SK-C-1440">Rijksmuseum</a>: Paulus Moreelse, portrait of Reinier Pauw, husband of Clara Alewijn, 1625 (the portrait of his wife (also by Moreelse) was lost in a fire in 1906)</div>
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In The Hague, at the "Hoge Raad van de Adel", are kept two paintings by presumably Nicolaes Pickenoy (but earlier attributed to Thomas De Keyser), showing Dirck de Graeff and Eva Bicker, dating to 1630. After the death of De Graeff, Bicker married into the Alewijn family, and the images entered the family gallery.</div>
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Portraits of Martinus and Clara Alewijn, 1644, by Dirck Dircks van Santvoort, now in the Rijksmuseum </div>
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<a href="https://www.nortonsimon.org/art/browse-by-artist/artist/780/nicolaes-maes">Norton Simon Museum</a>: Dirck Alewijn and his wife Agatha Bicker, by Nicolaes Maes, 1675</div>
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So, we have now identified some of the paintings by the most important artists mentioned in that 1885 text about the gallery and its sale; online, one can find even more paintings and drawings of the family by Vaillant, Santvoort, ... and later, lesser artists. This has also shown how the Alewijn family was one of the most important families in Amsterdam at the time, marrying with other prominent families like the Bickers, Pauw, De Graeff, ... </div>
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The text from "De Gids", already quoted above regarding the gallery in general, then describes in more detail the painting for sale here:</div>
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Met den broeder van laatstgemelden vangt de galerij familieportretten aan. Hij wordt vertegenwoordigd door een flink geschilderd en goed geconserveerd portret van een zestiende-eeuwer, met een langen rossen baard, die met forsche trekken op een papier, onder zijn spreuk <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Espoir me conforte</i>, een vierregelig fransch vers schrijft, geteekend <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">D. Aellouin</i> 1560. Volgens een opschrift met 17<sub style="box-sizing: border-box;">e</sub> eeuwsche hand achter op het paneel aangebracht is dit Dirck Alewijn, die volgens de genealogie in 't huwelijk trad met Cornelia Cannius, waarschijnlijk eene bloedverwante van Erasmus</div>
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vriend, den geleerden Amsterdamschen priester Nic. Cannius, welke verzwagering echter aan zijne familie nog niet zoo aanstonds den toegang tot het Amsterdamsche regeeringsgestoelte opende, want zijn zoon Dirk Dirksz. Alewijn komt op de Amsterdamsche regeeringslijsten nog niet voor.</div>
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"With the brother of the aforementioned commences the gallery of family portraits. He is represented by a boldly painted and well conserved portrait of a 16th-century person with a long, reddish beard, who with powerful moments writes on a paper, beneath his motto <i>Espoir me conforte</i>, a French verse in four lines, signed <i>D. Aellouin</i> 1560. According to an inscription, from a 17th-century hand, on the back of the panel, this is Dirck Alewijn, who according to the genealogy married Cornelia Cannius, presumably a blood relative of the friend of Erasmus, the learned priest from Amsterdam Nic. Cannius, whose cousinship however didn't immediately open up the Amsterdam government for his family, because his son Dirk Dirksz. Alewijn doesn't appear on the Amsterdam government lists."</div>
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Slightly shorter sentences might have made this text more easily understandable, but in any case this again clearly describes the same painting, and gives very interesting information about a text on the reverse, which isn't mentioned by the auction house. Considering that they read the text on the front as "<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Aetatis. fuce XXXIII" </span>we shouldn't be too surprised about any omissions or errors in the description though...</div>
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Anyway, this is about everything I could find about the family, their portrait gallery, and this specific painting. While we don't know who painted it, it is a good work, with a very good provenance now, and I presume that some museum in Amsterdam (the Stedelijk or the Rijksmuseum) would be well interested in adding this to their collection, certainly at the very reasonable estimate.<br />
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<b>UPDATE, 15 May 2020</b>; I posted this on Twitter (where I do most of my posts nowadays: only the paintings that need more explanation get the full treatment), and in the ensuing discussion I found some further information, and received some interesting knowledge from art historian <span style="font-family: inherit;">Maaike Dirkx,<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: #14171a;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter handle "Rembrandt's Room". </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #14171a;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">A source I at first dismissed was a "<a href="https://research.frick.org/montias/details/400/1">death inventory</a>" of Frederick Alewijn from 1665. I thought Dirck Alewijn was his great uncle and that the paintings described in this inventory were of Fredericks father and grandfather. Maaike Dirkx correctly informed me that the Dirck Alewijn I'm researching here is the grandfather of Frederick, and that the portrait for sale is most likely included in the inventory. The Frick, where I found the inventory, includes the following information: "</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Frederick Alewijn (1603-1665) was the son of Dirck Alewijn (1571-1637) and of Maria Schurman (1575-1621)." The Dirck mentioned here is the son of the Dirck in the painting (the name reappears many times in their family tree). His brother Abraham Alewijn was a well-known art collector. The inventory includes as #7 "1 c</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">onterfeijtsel van Dirck Alewijn" ("1 portrait of Dirck Alewijn"), but is unclear which Dirck this is. But considering that further down in the list we have "</span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">2 conterfeijtsels van wijlen Dirck Halewijn met sijn huijsvrouw"</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"> ("2 portraits of the late Dirck Alewijn and his wife"), it seems logical that the first painting is of the grandfather (i.e. the painting for sale now), for which there was no accompanying portrait of his wife, and that the other two are the second generation Dirck and his wife. Unless of course #60, "</span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">1 mans kontrefeijtsel Dirck Alewijn" </i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">is the one here.</span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"> </i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Most other paintings I show above can be found in that inventory as well, although the portrait of Clara Allewijn is here called one of "cousin de Bij". </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">There is also an even older inventory, from 1637, showing the possessions of Dirck Alewijn (the son) at the time of his death. It is reprinted on page 54ff. of the <a href="https://amstelodamum-archief.nl/resources/1911_jb_09.pdf">1911 yearbook</a> of <a href="https://www.amstelodamum.nl/archief-overzicht/">Amstelodamum</a>, an institution for the study of the history of Amsterdam. It learns us that the sitter in our portrait is Dirck Dircksz. Alewijn, a "wisselaar" (monet lender) in the Warmoesstraat in Amsterdam (then one of the main shopping streets). He was married to Neeltgen Cornelisdr. and his son Dirck was born in 1571. Because other sources gave the name of his wife as Cannius, I was initially confused and thought that this was a different Dirck. Dirck the son became very rich and had 8 children with Maria Schurman: Clara, Frederick and Abraham were the only three to reach adulthood. Clara is shown in tone of the paintings in this blog post.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">In this 1637 inventory, we find a number of paintings which may be of interest for this post (we also find quite a few paintings of general interest for art historians, like a large "Bath of Diana" by Louis Finson or some works by Frans Floris):</span><br />
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<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">"</span>Vier contrefeytsels van grootvader grootmoeder moeder en
kint" (four portraits of grandfather, grandmother, mother and child); without further specification, so probably not family members but some generic paintings</li>
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Alewyn ’" followed by "Tcontrefeijtsel van J&r. Eva Stalpaert", so this is probably a portrait of Dirck the son paired with one of his second wife, and not the painting for sale here, nor the painting of his son shown above (since that one was paired with one of his first wife)</li>
<li>"Tcontrefeytsel vande Raetsheer
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en soon en dochter elc apart" = portrait of council member Reynier Pau and his wife, and son and daughter each separately. The first two are shown in this blog post.</li>
<li>"Tcontrefeytsel van Joannes Canenius en sijn moeder elck apart", or the portraits of Joannes Canenius and his mother, separately: as the commentary in this article indicates, the fact that paintings of the Canenius or Cannius family are in this inventory show the relation between Dirck Alewijn the Elder and this one</li>
<li>"Tcontrefeijtselvansa: DiricAlewijn ’ Tcontrefeytsel van sa: Maria
Schuijrmans ’" This is probably the painting shown in this blog post, and the one lost in the fire</li>
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Finally (for now at least), I also found another mention of the work for sale in a Dutch literary magazine from 1866, "<a href="https://books.google.be/books?id=6S8jAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA71&dq=Alewijn+cannius&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiJ_6P7gLbpAhVH-aQKHbiFD3cQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Alewijn%20cannius&f=false">De Navorscher</a>", where a certain P. Opperdoes Alewijn, a direct descendant of the family, gives a lot of information about his ancestors. The parents of Dirck Dircksz Alewijn (the subject of the portrait for sale) were supposedly Diderick de Haleuin, ennobled for services to the Frech King François I (king between 1515 and 1547) and Anna Cannius. How it is explained that both father and son married a Cannius wife is not clear. In any case, it continues with:</div>
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Dczo <span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Diderick </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">De </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Haleuin, </span>gehuwd met <span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Anna </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Kan' </span>of <span class="gstxt_hlt" style="background-color: yellow; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Cannius, </span></span>had twee zoons (van meer kinderen is niets opgeteekend).</div>
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1°. <span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Dirck </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Dsz. </span><span class="gstxt_hlt" style="background-color: yellow; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Alewijn, </span></span>geboren 1527, gehuwd geweest met <span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Cornelia </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Kan </span>of <span class="gstxt_hlt" style="background-color: yellow; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Cannius, </span></span>zijnde de voorvader van den oudsten tak, waartoe ik behoor. Ook bezit ik van hem een portret in olieverw, waar hij is afgebeeld zittende aan eene tafel met een schrijfpen in de regterhand; voor hem ligt een stuk papier op hetwelk zijn linkerhand rust en waarop een moeilijk in zijn geheel te lezen vierregelig versje door hem geschreven is, tot hoofd hebbende de woorden »Espor me conforte;" wijders voorzien van zijne naamtcekening <span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">D'alleuin </span>en het door hem gestelde jaartal 1560. In den regter bovenhoek op de schilderij leest men ./Etatis XXXIII.</div>
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1° Dirck Dsz. Alewijn, born 1527, married to Cornelia Kan or Cannius, is the forefather of the elder branch, of which I'm a member. I also possess of him a portrait in oil, where he is depicted sitting at a table with a writing pen in his right hand: in front of him is a piece of paper upon which his left hand rests, and on which a small poem of four lines, hard to read completely, has been written by him, headed by the words "Espor me conforte", further bearing his signature 'Alleuin and the year 1560 stated by him. In the upper right corner of the painting one can read "Aetatis XXXIII"</div>
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So, yet another clear indication that this exact painting was owned by the family in the 19th century, and believed by them to be their first ancestor. </div>
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This is of course the advantage of finding a portrait of a member of an old, rich family which remained active for a long time and kept on to their possessions and papers; it makes it so much easier to find lots of information, even just by looking online.<br />
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<b>UPDATE 2</b>, 18 May 2020: I haven't been able to access it, but the 1885 auction also had an auction catalogue printed, and one copy of this is in the possession of the <a href="https://library.rijksmuseum.nl/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=235191">Rijksmuseum</a>, so perhaps further information (like the exact dimensions, or about the text on the back) can be found there. If we're very lucky, it also contains the name of the buyer and the price it fetched.<br />
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The <a href="https://books.google.be/books?id=8K5_vmlrwroC&dq=%22Catalogue+de+portraits+de+famille+et+tableaux+anciens%22+%22Alewijn%22&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=1560">snippet view</a> in Google (no idea if this was taken from the Rijksmuseum copy or not) seems to show someone having transcribed the four-line poem, so that as well would be nice information to have.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>UPDATE 3: sold for 5816 Swiss Francs</b>, so near the top of the estimate, but a good price for this painting with lots of history.</div>
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<br />Francis Moutonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08107574903280657353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1182607262530091408.post-71205275062772802472020-03-18T20:00:00.000+01:002020-03-18T20:00:10.773+01:00What's with the many artists making still lifes with blue ribbons? <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span id="goog_648245165"></span><span id="goog_648245166"></span>Schlosser, from Germany, sells on 27 March 2020 as lot 19 a "Flemish Master, 17th or 8th century" still life, estimated at 3,000 Euro.<br />
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It is an attractive work, which looks well painted: but the image is not good enough to be certain, and it looks somewhat overcleaned as well. If you would like to bid on it, best to ask for better images first. For my blog I like to base myself solely on what the auction houses present online though.<br />
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It seemed easy enough to search: while there have been countless good still life painters, the use of such a distinctive blue ribbon should narrow it down considerably. And indeed, I soon came across Cornelis de Heem (1631-1695), who used this device repeatedly. The above example, from Bowes Castle, also has it combined with grapes, so now I only had to look a bit more in detail to see if it would be a work by him, from his workshop, a follower, ... and then to decide the value.<br />
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I found other works in the same vein by De Heem, like this one offered at <a href="https://www.lempertz.com/en/catalogues/lot/1132-1/1273-cornelis-de-heem.html">Lempertz</a> with a 30,000 Euro estimate, or another one from the <a href="https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O132439/fruit-and-flowers-oil-painting-heem-cornelis-de/">V&A</a>. <br />
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But that further look also showed me works by Christiaan Luyckx, Joris Van Son, Laurens Craen,...<br />
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And then I start looking for details which are even closer to the work for sale. Isn't the ribbon rather similar to the one in this work by Pieter Gallis (<a href="https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/pieter-gallis-hoorn-1633-1697-a-festoon-of-6237833-details.aspx">Christie's</a>, sold for £27,000)? Well, it's closer than the other ones, but the material seems different, and the remainder is also too pale to be comparable to the (too?) warm colours in the work for sale. Other details can be matched to other artists and works, like the opened pomegranate (De Heem and Luyckx for example).<br />
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So I have to step away from my favourite method, looking for similar compositions, elements, ... and focus a bit more on the tricky subject of style. And to me, among the many late 17th century artists in Flanders and the Netherlands using this device, the closest is Maria van Oosterwyck (1630-1693), one of those 17th century women artists who were easily the equal of most male painters, but were too long forgotten (or at least ignored).<br />
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She was a student of Jan Davidsz de Heem, the father of, yes, Cornelis de Heem. Oosterwycks work is characterized by bright, strong colours, shining out against the dark background. The main difference is that Oosterwyck usually painted flowers, not fruit, but there turn out to be some works by her combining grapes and a blue ribbon after all.<br />
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<a href="https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/21413/lot/84/">Bonham's</a> sold a work for £56,000 in 2013. I have added a detail from the work for sale below it, for comparison.<br />
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Another one, with grapes, was sold by <a href="https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/maria-van-oosterwyck-nooddorp-nr-delft-1630-1693-4220965-details.aspx">Christie's</a> in 2003 for £20,000.<br />
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The <a href="https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/118993">RKD</a> lists a similar one which was for sale with Richard Valls.<br />
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So, is it an Oosterwyck painting? I would love it to be, but I'm not convinced. A "Circle of Cornelis de Heem", that's for sure, but anything more precise than that is, based on the not-so-good painting and my limited knowledge, just guesswork. Still, it seems an interesting work for its price, it introduced me to the omnipresent blue ribbon in these works, and perhaps someone else will know who painted this. Francis Moutonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08107574903280657353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1182607262530091408.post-45562637915579109832020-03-17T20:00:00.000+01:002020-03-17T20:00:11.023+01:00Flemish "Lamentation": many copies, where's the original?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://www.kunstauktionshaus-schlosser.de/katalog.html">Schlosser</a>, from Germany, sells on 27 March 2020 as Lot 3 an "Early Netherlandish Master, 2nd half of the 16th century" Lamentation, estimated at 4,500 Euro.<br />
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This composition exists in many versions, but there doesn't seem to be an actual original. It does hark back to a Joos van Cleve composition now in the <a href="https://sammlung.staedelmuseum.de/en/work/lamentation-of-christ">Städel</a> in Frankfurt, as the RKD notes, but some intermediate step is missing to explain how all these poorer copies made the exact same changes (e.g. in the position of the head of the Virgin).<br />
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Most copies are somewhat closer to the Cleve in the figure of the Magdalen on the right: in the work for sale, this has been modernized somewhat, and perhaps this version must be dated closer to 1600 than the others.<br />
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The two anonymous versions from the RKD show how much closer these are to the one for sale than to the Cleve. The <a href="https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/226429">first one</a> was sold at Sotheby's in 2010, the <a href="https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/41346">second one</a> was with art dealer Van der Lubbe in The Hague in 1941<br />
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Another version was for sale with <a href="https://www.anticstore.com/deploration-christ-entourage-joos-van-cleve-vers-1530-60226P">Promenade Antiques</a>, as "circle of Van Cleve, ca. 1530". All these versions have a "table" or similar in front of the Christ, with elements of the Passion; the one or sale has lost this aspect.<br />
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A very nice version was sold at <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/lot.402.html/2012/old-master-19th-century-european-art-n08826">Sotheby's</a> in 2012 for $8,750 Euro, good value for money there. it is very close to the two RKD examples, but better executed.<br />
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The one for sale will probably struggle to meet expectations, as it is not the best copy, and slightly later than hoped for.Francis Moutonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08107574903280657353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1182607262530091408.post-72374930660550996172020-03-09T20:00:00.000+01:002020-03-09T20:00:14.451+01:00"16th century Flemish School" is by follower of Quentin or Jan Matsys<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://veiling.veilinghuisderuiter.nl/lot/lot-details/104138/vlaamse-school-16e-eeuw">De Ruiter</a>, from the Netherlands, sells on 19 March 2020 a "Flemish School, 16th century" "pastoral romantic scene" estimated at 2,000 to 3,000 Euro.<br />
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The panel is clearly made by a follower of Jan Matsys (1510-1575), the son of Quentin Matsys. Jan often used the same male head in his satirical pieces, like the above "Prodigal Son" from <a href="http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/486145">Petworth House</a>.<br />
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But the same head also appears in works by his father, like the "Ill-matched lovers" from the National Gallery in Washington.<br />
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Closer comparison clearly shows the similarities, and the differences, which are partly due to the worse condition of the one for sale. I have also mirrored the head from the Jan Massys to show again the same origin.<br />
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I couldn't find an equally matching example for the head of the woman, but it still clearly fits in the range of caricatural older woman depicted by both Massyses.<br />
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The man's head is by far the best part of the work for sale: if it all had been like that, I would have probably put it down as a workshop copy, not the work of a follower, and would have adjusted the value upwards accordingly. As it stands though, it still is an interesting work from the period, and should easily fetch the estimate.<br />
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A nearly identical work (almost the same dimensions as well) was sold by <a href="https://www.hampel-auctions.com/a/Niederlaendischer-Maler-in-der-Stilnachfolge-des-Quinten-Massys-1466-1530.html?a=96&s=379&id=517902&g=Gemaelde-16-18-Jhdt">Hampel</a> in 2014, estimated at 3,000 to 5,000 Euro, and described correctly as "follower of Quentin Massys". I don't know if it was sold, and for how much. The bottom of the two is the De Ruiter one, for ease of comparison.Francis Moutonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08107574903280657353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1182607262530091408.post-84414832204023128462020-03-04T20:00:00.000+01:002020-03-04T20:00:02.320+01:00"Follower of Pieter Pourbus" is follower of Gillis Mostaert instead<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://www.interencheres.com/meubles-objets-art/mobilier-et-objets-dart-267586/lot-23586314.html">Vassy & Jalenques</a>, from France, sells on 14 March 2020 a "Flemish School, ca. 1600, follower of Pieter Pourbus" Adam and Eve, estimated at 2,000 to 3,000 Euro.<br />
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The work doesn't resemble the paintings by Pieter Pourbus really, and some searching shows that it is based on a work by Gillis Mostaert instead.<br />
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This engraving by Jan Sadeler (from the collections of the <a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O727933/eve-tempting-adam-print-mostaert-gillis/">Victoria & Albert Museum</a>) shows the same central element, and clearly attributes the "invention" of the composition to Gillis Mostaert. As both artists are almost contemporaneous, there is no reason to doubt this.<br />
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I don't know if the changes to format and the animals depicted within are due to the imagination of the copy-painter, or if a version existed with this format as well. It may even be that this is the actual original, there isn't much material to compare with (most extant Mostaert paintings are rather different busy city or village views). The work for sale certainly is good, but probably not good enough to be an original.<br />
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Even so, it should not have any trouble getting the estimate if people see it for what it is. Francis Moutonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08107574903280657353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1182607262530091408.post-49052405576112458072020-01-24T20:00:00.000+01:002020-03-09T15:14:58.205+01:00A Memling-inspired Saint Anne<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.cornettedesaintcyr.fr/html/fiche.jsp?id=11564750&np=1&lng=fr&npp=100&ordre=1&aff=&r=">Cornette de Saint-Cyr</a>, from France, sells on 30 January 2020 a "ca. 1520 Flemish School" Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, estimated at 6,000 to 8,000 Euro.<br />
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Another version of the painting is at the <a href="https://www.ashmoleanprints.com/image/221351/anonymous-flemish-the-virgin-and-child-with-saint-anne">Ashmolean Museum</a> in Oxford, as "Anonymous, Flemish, ca. 1500", so while it confirms the date and region, it doesn't help us any further in finding the artist or inspiration for it.<br />
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And a minor variation is shown in a work from the Walker Art Gallery (through <a href="https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-virgin-and-child-with-saint-anne-98517/search/keyword:saint-anne/page/3">Art UK</a>) Attributed simply to the Netherlandish School.<br />
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A miniature from the Simon Bening Workshop, from ca. 1510, shows the same structure, with many comparable elements in the dress and positions. It is for sale at <a href="https://guenther-rarebooks.com/artworks/categories/2/9550/">Jörn Günther Rare Books</a>. It seems unlikely that there would be no link between this miniature and the Walker art version above, as the folds in the dress of the Virgin are just too similar.<br />
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Italian versions simply showed Anne hovering over (sometimes really towering!) and protecting Mary.
This can also be seen in e.g. this painting by Jan Joest of Kalkar, from
the Columbus Museum of Arts, which dates to ca. 1510 and is thus
contemporary to the work for sale.<br />
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This vertical depiction of the Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, with Anne reading a book, seems to have originated with Hans Memling in ca. 1480, from a diptych in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich.<br />
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<b>UPDATE: sold for 7,800 Euro.</b> <br />
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<br />Francis Moutonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08107574903280657353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1182607262530091408.post-23710260375228137532020-01-16T20:00:00.001+01:002020-01-24T09:48:14.446+01:00"Attributed to Frans Snyders": workshop of Peter van Boucle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://www.vanderkindere.com/default.asp?sCode=DESCRIPTION-FR&sale=241&id=620278&page_nbr=23">Vanderkindere</a>, from Belgium, sells on 22 January 2020 an "attributed to Frans Snyders" still life, estimated at 2,000 to 3,000 Euro.<br />
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This good sized work (96 by 128 cm) is painted by Peter van Boucle (born ca. 1600, died 1673), a pupil of Snyders. He worked mainly in Paris and was known almost exclusively for still lifes, often with animals in them. Some tell-tale characteristics reveal his hand.<br />
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The <a href="https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/images/13376">RKD</a> lists a very similar work with a Genuese art dealer in 1968. The boar's head, the hare with the sniffing dog, ...<br />
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<a href="https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/images/13376">Another one</a> was sold at Drouot in 1971.<br />
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<a href="https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/images/13298">This one</a> is from a private collection. The way the white cloth is folded is remarkably similar.<br />
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Originally sold as by Frans Snyders (in 1972 with art dealer Jungeling), now <a href="https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/images/13325">reattributed</a> to Van Boucle. The position and order of duck / hare / partridge(?) is comparable.<br />
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Still via <a href="https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/images/13327">RKD</a>, offered at Sotheby's in 1990, again with a boar's head in the background. And a whole series of others with similar dogs, hares, birds, ...<br />
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<a href="https://www.ivoire-france.com/toulouse/fr/lot-2491-77865-93_peter_van_boucle_nature_morte_._huile">Ivoire</a>, an auction house from Toulouse, in France, offered a signed van Boucle of a similar size with again some elements very close to the one here. Their estimate was 6,000 to 8,000 Euro. The quality of the image is quite low, but one can see that the hare here is very close to the one on the work for sale, both the position and details like the ears. It also contains a sniffing hunting dog with a narrow collar around its neck, a dead duck, and a similar live chicken.<br />
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While the work offered at Vanderkindere doesn't match the quality of van Boucle's best works, it still has some elements showing real quality (like the above detail of the dog and hare), and is worthy of a "Workshop of" label. The estimate is probably about right, it may fetch 5,000 Euro on a good day.<br />
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<b>UPDATE: sold for 2,200 Euro.</b> <br />
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<a href="https://www.vanderkindere.com/default.asp?sCode=DESCRIPTION-FR&sale=241&id=619869&page_nbr=2">Vanderkindere</a>, from Belgium, sells on 21 January 2019 an "Attributed to Otto van Veen" Young Bacchus, estimated at 2,500 to 3,500 Euro. <br />
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It is probably a work by or after Hendrick Van Balen the Younger (1623-1661), as it is identical to multiple works sold as such and also matches his style in general, more than the more formal style of Van Veen.<br />
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One smaller, darker version was sold at <a href="https://www.piasa.fr/en/products/attribu-hendrick-i-i-van-b-a-l-e-n16231661-la-jeunesse-de-bacchus-panneau-de-ch-ne-une-planche-non-parquet16-x185-cm-rest_1516626995_5a65e433c981d">Piasa</a> for 1,030 Euro.<br />
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And another, from the Circle of van Balen, was sold this year at <a href="http://www.cornettedesaintcyr.be/html/fiche.jsp?id=10323133&np=&lng=fr&npp=150&ordre=&aff=&r=">Cornette de Saint Cyr </a>for 1,300 Euro.<br />
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A somewhat better version is for sale with antiques shop <a href="https://www.lacredence.com/en/painting/the-childhood-of-bacchus-17th-century-flemish/">La Credence</a>, for an unknown price. They give no attribution, only a generic "17th century Flemish". <br />
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The one for sale now is clearly superior to these three, and the estimate seems about right.<br />
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<b>UPDATE: not sold</b> Francis Moutonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08107574903280657353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1182607262530091408.post-63984580873034602572020-01-15T20:00:00.000+01:002020-03-09T15:17:31.831+01:0018th c. Flemish is copy after Hendrik Goltzius<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://bid.chorleys.com/m/lot-details/index/catalog/11/lot/3308?url=%2Fm%2Fview-auctions%2Fcatalog%2Fid%2F11%3Fpage%3D2">Chorley's</a>, from England, sells on 28 January 2020 an "18th century Flemish School" Salvator Mundi, estimated at £300 to £500.<br />
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It is a good copy after an engraving by Hendrick Goltzius from 1589 (found at the <a href="https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-P-OB-10.052">Rijksmuseum</a>). There seems to be no reason to date this to the 18th century and not to the 17th century, when this would have been more popular. <br />
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It should be worth £700 to £1000 probably.<br />
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<b>UPDATE: indeed, sold for £800.</b> Francis Moutonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08107574903280657353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1182607262530091408.post-898633136849617792020-01-14T20:00:00.000+01:002020-03-09T15:17:06.286+01:00An unknown Antonius Claeissens?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://bid.chorleys.com/m/lot-details/index/catalog/11/lot/3289?url=%2Fm%2Fview-auctions%2Fcatalog%2Fid%2F11%3Fpage%3D2">Chorley's</a>, from England, sells on 28 January 2020 a "17th century Flemish" Virgin and Child, estimated at £700 to £1,000.<br />
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The remarkable physique of the Virgin, with the very broad shoulders, makes me believe that we should look in the direction of the Claeissens brothers from Bruges.<br />
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Probably the closest is a work by Antonius Claeissens (active 1551-1613), which has a very similar Virgin, with a comparable background as well (found through <a href="https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/109452">RKD</a>). The row of tassels at the top is comparable, but most striking is the nearly identical dress of the Virgin, with the same border decoration.<br />
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The chances of having the same bodytype for the rather solemn virgin, with the same dress and decoration, same type of flower, same type of background, but a different artist or workshop, seems rather slim.<br />
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Antoon Claeissens is sadly the least interesting of the four Claeissens (compared to his brother Pieter the Younger and certainly his other brother Gilles or his father Pieter the Elder). Even so, this is a relatively rare work from the very last spasms of the great School of Bruges which started with Van Eyck, Memling and Christus, and which was already overtaken by the more modern art of the Pourbus family. <br />
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This work should be worth 2,000 to 3,000 Euro.<br />
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<b>UPDATE: sold for 7,500, impressive!</b> Francis Moutonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08107574903280657353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1182607262530091408.post-40967896532621636462020-01-13T20:00:00.000+01:002020-03-09T15:18:10.707+01:00Copy after a lost Rubens?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://bid.chorleys.com/m/lot-details/index/catalog/11/lot/3304?url=%2Fm%2Fview-auctions%2Fcatalog%2Fid%2F11%3Fpage%3D2">Chorley's</a>, from England, sells on 28 January 2020 a "Flemish School, 17th/18th century" Achilles discovered among the daughters of Lycomedes, a very large canvas (150 by 228!) estimated at £2,000 to £3,000.<br />
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It is not painted terribly well (it looks more like a 19th century copy, though a good enough one to be worth buying), but the composition is pure Flemish Baroque quality, so that's where I started looking.<br />
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Sure enough, the <a href="https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/achilles-discovered-by-ulysses-and-diomedes/df2381a5-3622-400a-b64c-19276013c2a7">Prado </a>has a Rubens / Van Dyck collaboration with the same topic and many similar parts (e.g. the two daughters at the front), but it isn't the same in the end.<br />
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Looking further lead me to the Danish <a href="https://collection.smk.dk/#/en/detail/KMS3581">Statens Museum for Kunst</a>, which has a Rubens drawing showing the composition of the work for sale. Well, the horizontal version that is, where all figures are placed together much closer, giving a more intense painting, and avoiding the empty vertical space right in the middle.<br />
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The <a href="https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/images/269193">RKD</a> lists a copy after this work, offered by Hampel auctions in Germany in 2015 (I can't immediately find it there). This version was known as early as 1854 as by Van Dyck, and later as by Rubens, but is now considered a (very good) copy.<br />
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The Prado version is known through several copies (from Nicholas Ryckmans and Cornelis Visscher II), but the other version, which interests us here, also has been turned into an engraving, by Frans van den Wijngaerde: this engraving explicitly states that it is a work after Van Dyck. As it is made in the decades directly after Rubens and Van Dyck died, chances are that this attribution is correct. This version was found at the <a href="https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/RP-P-OB-24.880">Rijksmuseum</a>. The <a href="https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3130205&partId=1&searchText=lycomedes&page=1">British Museum</a> states that despite the engraving being made between 1630 and 1645, they are still wrong with the Van Dyck attribution and it is a Rubens anyway.<br />
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The version for sale is the only one I can find with the horizontal format. Whether this is an invention by the copiist, or some lost or online not available version exists with this less successful format is unclear to me. It is in any case an interesting work if you are interested in Rubens or Van Dyck.<br />
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<b>UPDATE: sold for £4,500, double the estimate.</b> Francis Moutonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08107574903280657353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1182607262530091408.post-42729425706778937552019-12-16T20:00:00.000+01:002019-12-17T10:15:41.103+01:00The case of the Great BustardLast week (10 and 11 December 2019), Vanderkindere, from Belgium, had an interesting sale with a few lots I was writing a blog post about, when I came across a painting which they had misattributed and undervalued, and which seemed obscure enough to give me a fair chance at buying a sleeper for once. In the end, I didn't win, but the blog post remained unposted as I didn't want to attract more attention to the auction. So, this one is after the fact, but the auction had one major painting, and my sleeper, so it may still be interesting. Plus, Vanderkindere removes the images after the auction, so here's your chance to see a few of them. The quality of the auction was mainly caused by the sale of two relatively important collections, one from <span class="span_description">Baron Benoît-Adrien de Moffarts, and one from the Castle of Zaventem.</span><br />
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First we had <a href="https://www.vanderkindere.com/default.asp?sCode=DESCRIPTION-FR&sale=238&id=618765&page_nbr=1">lot 4</a>, a "16th century(?), anonymous" John the Baptist, estimated at 1,000 to 1,500 Euro.<br />
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It was based on an engraving by Jacob Matham after Hendrik Goltzius (found via the <a href="https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/search/objects?q=baptist+AND+lamb&p=4&ps=12&imgonly=True&st=Objects&ii=2#/RP-P-OB-27.109,38">Rijksmuseum</a>). Even so, it fetched 3,800 Euro, a lot more than I expected.<br />
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<a href="https://www.vanderkindere.com/default.asp?sCode=DESCRIPTION-FR&sale=238&id=618804&page_nbr=3">Lot 43</a> was a "Follower of Lucas van Valckenborch" Flemish Kermesse with skaters, estimated at 5,000 to 7,000 Euro.<br />
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In fact, it didn't show a winter scene with skaters, but people dancing around the May tree! It was sold for 5,600 Euro. <br />
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<a href="https://www.vanderkindere.com/default.asp?sCode=DESCRIPTION-FR&sale=238&id=618866&page_nbr=6">Lot 105</a> was the star lot of the auction. "Attributed to Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen", the portrait of <span class="span_description">George Schenck van Toutenburg, stadhouder of Overijssel, estimated at 50,000 to 60,000 Euro. </span><br />
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<span class="span_description">People clearly and rightly believed it to be an authentic work by Vermeyen, and heavy bidding saw it end at 520,000 Euro, a very high price for a Belgian auction. Not surprising, Vermeyen was one of the best and most important portraitists of his generation in Northern Europe, and his works are rare on the market, as most of them are in museum collections.</span><br />
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<span class="span_description">Not a record for this artist though, his incredibly powerful portrait of </span><span class="span_description">Joost Aemszoon van der Burch sold for 2,7 million in 2016 at <a href="https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/jan-cornelisz-vermeyen-beverwijk-c-1500-c-1559-5986916-details.aspx">Christie's</a>.</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.vanderkindere.com/default.asp?sCode=DESCRIPTION-FR&sale=238&id=618831&page_nbr=4">Lot 70</a> was an "Attributed to Govert Flinck" portrait of an abbess, estimated at 7,000 to 9,000 Euro. It was sold for 9,500 Euro, not too much for this good painting.<br />
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<a href="https://www.vanderkindere.com/default.asp?sCode=DESCRIPTION-FR&sale=238&id=618910&page_nbr=8">Lot 149</a> was a "Flemish School, 16th century" Stoning of Saint Stephen, estimated at 800 to 1,200 Euro. It fetched 1,800 Euro instead.<br />
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It is a copy after an engraving by Remondini, which I found at the <a href="https://wellcomecollection.org/works/vy3nwwzg">Wellcome</a> collection. I can't find much information on this engraver though, except that he seems to have worked in the 18th century, which is a bit late for this painting.<br />
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So I continued looking, and it is more likely to be a copy after an engraving by Jan Sadeler I after Marten de Vos, depicting the Martyrdom of Five Saints (via the <a href="https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/publications/online_research_catalogues/search_object_details.aspx?currentPage=4&numpages=10&objectid=1547558&orig=%2Fresearch%2Fpublications%2Fonline_research_catalogues%2Frussian_icons%2Fcatalogue_of_russian_icons%2Fadvanced_search.aspx&output=Terms%2F%21%21%2FOR%2F%21%21%2F16213%2F%21%2F%2F%21%2Ftorture%2F%21%2F%2F%21%21%2F%2F%21%21%21%2F&partid=1">British Museum</a>). This engraving also has the same orientation as the painting, which makes more sense. <br />
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<a href="https://www.vanderkindere.com/default.asp?sCode=DESCRIPTION-FR&sale=238&id=618915&page_nbr=8">Lot 154</a> is a "Dutch School, 17th century, monogram H.V.E." Vanity with soap bubbles, estimated at 600 to 800 Euro. It sold for just 500 Euro.<br />
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It is a variation on a work by David Teniers, as can be seen in this version from the National Museum of Fine Arts in Cuba (found at <a href="https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/images/230909">RKD</a>: looks like a copy to me).<br />
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Another version was sold at <a href="https://auction.van-ham.com/en/item/id/A_young_lady_playing_the_guitar_with_children_blowing_soap_bubbles_13486.html">Van Ham</a> last month (14 November 2019), also as a David Teniers: it fetched 50,000 Euro. This one is even closer to one for sale, when one looks at details like the bottles on the table or the form of the guitar (including the tassel at the end).<br />
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Finally, I found the original for the work for sale in the <a href="https://www.rct.uk/collection/406637/a-woman-playing-the-guitar">Royal Collection</a> (purchased by George IV). Here as well I'm not convinced that this is an actual Teniers and not some copy (perhaps a workshop copy), real Teniers paintings show a lot more brilliance usually. <br />
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The<a href="https://www.vanderkindere.com/default.asp?sCode=DESCRIPTION-FR&sale=238&id=618989&page_nbr=12"> last lot</a> is the one I wanted to buy, but where I didn't succeed. A "Dutch School, late 17th or early 18th century" still life, estimated at 1,000 Euro. <br />
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The work seemed immediately underestimated, as it showed clear quality. It also had some rather individual characteristics, like the type of birds or the way the fruit and vegatables was painted.<br />
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Some searching led me to Gottfried Libalt (1610-1673), a German-Austrian painter. I stumbled across a work in the <a href="http://sbirky.ngprague.cz/en/dielo/CZE:NG.DO_4976">National Gallery of Prague</a> showing the exact same bird, though in a different setting, but with the same typical method of painting the subjects. Other works also had similar birds and vegetables, making it quite certain that this was an unknown, misattributed genuine Libalt.<br />
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The bird, by the way, looks to be a Great Bustard, a bird most common in Spain but also in Austria and surroundings. It is one of the largest European birds, and an imposing sight, in nature but presumably also on the table of some royalty or high nobility. I have no knowledge of any other painter who ever depicted a great bustard in their still lifes, but they probably exist anyway.<br />
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The Vanderkindere work was sold for 7,000 Euro, which I think is a bargain, as it should be worth 25,000 to 30,000 Euro. Francis Moutonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08107574903280657353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1182607262530091408.post-44314929902703769442019-12-13T12:00:00.000+01:002019-12-17T09:23:48.981+01:00Some lots from RopsRops, from belgium, sells on 15 and 16 December a few interesting lots.<br />
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<a href="https://www.rops.be/vente-decembre_-p-391522.html?language=nl">Lot 1918 </a>is a "German School" portrait of Ioannes Draconites, estimated at 4,000 to 6,000 Euro.<br />
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Johannes Draconites (1494-1566) was a German theologian and humanist. The portrait here matches the few known portraits, so no problem there, and is actually the best portrait of him among those I found online.<br />
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The painting was sold by <a href="http://galeriemoderne.be/resultat.asp?cv=P15&LotNo=242">Galerie Moderne</a> in 2017 (as "German School, 16th century"), where it fetched 34,000 Euro against a 4,000 Euro estimate.<br />
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It was then offered as a work by Bartholomäus Bruyn the Elder on 18 May 2019 at <a href="https://www.auction.fr/_fr/lot/bartholomaus-bruyn-d-a-portrat-des-johannes-draconitesol-auf-holz-25-5-x-21-5-15461824">Lempertz</a>, with an estimate of 60,000 Euro to 80,000 Euro, but failed to sell and was afterwards removed from the website. And now it is back on the market at the original price and description... An interesting work, worth more than the estimate, but probably rather "burned" by now to expect an actual profit.<br />
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<b>UPDATE: sold for 13,000 Euro!</b> <br />
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<a href="https://www.rops.be/vente-decembre_-p-394824.html?language=nl">Lot 1937</a> is a "Joos de Momper" landscape estimated at 600 to 800 Euro.<br />
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While the work isn't as good as known similar works by the artist, and should probably be described as workshop or follower, it still is a very good work for the price, and should fetch 2,000 Euro instead. The two details above compare similar bits from the one for sale (above) and a winter landscape from a private collection, included in the Ertz Catalogue Raisonnée from 1986. The figures are not by Joos de Momper normally though, but by Jan Brueghel II, and the detail from the work for sale closely follows his style.<br />
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If it is an authentic work by these two, then I am way too cautious. One sold at <a href="http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2014/old-master-british-paintings-evening-l14036/lot.2.html">Sotheby's</a> in 2014 fetched £386,500! To me eyes, it lacks that intensity, the detailing and colouring from a real work. Still, it wouldn't surprise me if this one became the sleeper of the auction.<br />
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<b>UPDATE: indeed, sold for 30,000 Euro!!</b> <br />
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Unless of course <a href="https://www.rops.be/vente-decembre_-p-390706.html?language=nl">lot 1986</a>, a 1544 portrait of Emperor Charles V, estimated at 800 to 1,200 Euro, is even more interesting.<br />
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The auction house gives no indication of date and origin, and the estimate seems to suggest that they doubt ots authenticity. The face seems right, the date matches the age on the image, so if it is a fake, it was done cleverly. It can also be a much more recent copy of an old work of course.<br />
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The text on the outer rim reads "S. Propagand(e?) Anno Aetatis S. XXXXIIII" "Gloriosiss. Victoriosiss. Clementiss. Imp. Carolus V." "PP. ReiFubi" (no clear space between Rei and Fubi).<br />
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The peculiarity of one gloved hand and one holding the other glove is reminiscent of the portrait of Charles V by Titian fom 1548, now in the Alte Pinakothek.<br />
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If this is an original, contemporary portrait of Charles V from a painter from the German School, it should be worth around 10,000 Euro instead.<br />
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<b>UPDATE: sold for 6,500 Euro, nice.</b> <br />
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<a href="https://www.rops.be/vente-decembre_-p-393961.html?language=nl">Lot 2097</a> is nothing spectacular, just a bargain in my opinion. A beautiful drawing of a Neogothic building (or design for one), very decorative, even if we don't know the name of the architect or whether the house is real or not. At 100 to 160 Euro, you get a large work (98 by 66 cm) which would fit perfectly in many houses. They offer a whole series of good architectural coloured drawings, but this one seems to be the best.<br />
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<b>UPDATE: sold for 100 Euro</b>, people didn't really share my enthusiasm. <br />
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Finally, <a href="https://www.rops.be/vente-decembre_-p-391521.html?language=nl">lot 2198</a>, is a "15th century Italian school of Lorenza de Paolo", an ordination of a priest/saint estimated at 3,000 to 4,000 Euro.<br />
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It looks like the work of a miniaturist who tried to paint at a larger scale, ca. 1480-1500 (perhaps because the market for miniatures was diminishing with the introduction of book printing?). The problem with the description is that I can't find any trace of a Lorenzo de Paolo. "Lorenza" is unlikely in any case, but no Lorenzo de Paolo or variation thereof seems to be known either. Perhaps they meant Giovanni di Paolo? He also painted with these heavy folds, and made both panel paintings and illuminations, so there may be a link, but it seems tenuous.<br />
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I haven't been able to find a more precise subject for the painting (i.e. which saint?), and the iconography looks to be rather unusual. The value seems about right though.<br />
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<b>UPDATE; indeed, sold for 3,600 Euro.</b> <br />
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On the 16th they sell<a href="https://www.rops.be/vente-decembre_-p-397312.html?language=nl"> lot 5009</a>, a poster estimated at 80 to 120 Euro.<br />
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It is a badly damaged lot, torn and darkened, but it turns out to be a highly desirable work anyway (assuming that it is an original, which seems likely). It is a poster for "Les Montmartroises" "Poésies et chansons par Jean Goudezki" "Les musiques par Léopold Gangloff" "Editeur Georges Ondet" with an address in Paris, and a small note that the poster may not be sold.<br />
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It turns out to be a poster by Georges de Feure (1868-1943) for the famous Chat Noir cabaret. Another one was sold at <a href="https://www.artprecium.com/catalogue/vente_322_le-tour-du-monde-par-laffiche-6me-dition/lot_917_de-feure-g#.XfNuzBvA-pr">ArtPrecium</a> in 2018 for 2,000 Euro!<br />
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Now, there is good and bad news. The bad news is that, apart from the condition issues already noted, the one for sale misses the leftmost part, with the signature and indication of Chat Noir. The discoloration is also much more obvious when compared to one in good condition.<br />
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So what's the good news, apart from this being a sought-after poster? Well, the one sold was a nice format, 31 by 79 cm. The one for sale now though is 128 by 63 cm! At double the size of the other one, it looks to be much rarer still. I can find information about the small one from a few other sales (Sotheby's Fine posters auction, 1979, Swann Auctions in 2008, and another sale in 1968) and a poster catalogue from 1977, but the large one is never mentioned as far as I can see. Even a <a href="https://books.google.be/books?id=2cbkgAYgWcwC&pg=PA26&lpg=PA26&dq=%22de+feure%22+%22goudezki%22&source=bl&ots=n1PVvwV9jf&sig=ACfU3U0jYRbN3221C8AzRRyaEyWmXpjqyA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjCoOHIvbLmAhWM2qQKHY5LBkgQ6AEwC3oECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22de%20feure%22%20%22goudezki%22&f=false">book on Georges de Feure</a> only mentions the small one.<br />
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Which means that I have no clue about the value. If it is original (and my gut instinct says yes), then a complete one in good condition may be worth 10,000 Euro. An incomplete, battered one? No idea, but definitely more than 80 Euro surely?<br />
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<b>UPDATE: not sold. </b>Not an original? Or is an original, even if rare and sought after, worthless in this condition? No idea. <br />
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<br />Francis Moutonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08107574903280657353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1182607262530091408.post-34982532535467490332019-12-11T21:00:00.000+01:002019-12-12T09:10:37.580+01:00An unrecognised copy after Jacob de Backer (and one after Pieter Coecke)<br />
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<a href="https://www.herbette.fr/ventes/dimanche-15-decembre-2019/n-137-ecole-hollandaise-du-xviie-la-musique-pour-les-dieux-assis-sur-l-olympe-huile-sur-panneau-monogramme-et-cachet-de-cire-a-l-arriere-du-panneau-h-55-l-72.html">Herbette</a>, from Doullens, in France, sells on 15 December 2019 a "Dutch School, 17th century" Music for the Gods, estimated at 2,000 to 3,000 Euro.<br />
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It is a more colourful but slightly stilted version of an "Apollo and Pan" by Jacob de Backer, sold at <a href="https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/paintings/jacob-de-backer-and-studio-the-6182791-details.aspx?from=salesummery&intobjectid=6182791&sid=cb6cf841-6a4a-4e4a-a86d-d8569286ca32">Christie's </a>last year for £22,500. That one was 107 by 149 cm, the one for sale is only 55 by 72 or about half size (well, quarter size by surface area, half size by any single dimension).<br />
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Even as a copy it seems underrated and should probably go for closer to 5,000 Euro.<br />
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The same auction also has as <a href="https://www.herbette.fr/ventes/dimanche-15-decembre-2019/n-290-ecole-du-nord-du-xviie-la-sainte-famille-sur-un-fond-de-paysage-architecture-huile-sur-panneau-de-chene-une-fente-h-49-l-36.html">lot 290</a> a "Northern School, 17th century" Holy Family, estimated at 800 to 1200 Euro.<br />
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It is a copy after Pieter Coecke (workshop version shown, other variations are known as well), not the best but interesting at that price. Note how the hand of the virgin offering her breast to the child, has been changed in the more "modest" version for sale to a hand giving a benediction. Francis Moutonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08107574903280657353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1182607262530091408.post-90962430539317323062019-12-11T20:00:00.000+01:002019-12-11T20:00:10.591+01:00Van den Hoecke, Jan Brueghel II, Frans Francken, Hendrick van Balen... all copies after Cavarozzi<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://www.interencheres.com/meubles-objets-art/belle-vente-cataloguee-de-noel-live-264054/lot-22766364.html">Fourquet-Peeren</a>, from Saint-Omer in France, sells on 14 December 2019 a "Flemish School (Antwerp), first half of the 17th century" Holy family, estimated at 4,000 to 6,000 Euro. It is attributed on the frame to Jan Van den Hoecke (1611-1651), assistant to Rubens.<br />
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Earlier this year,<a href="https://www.rm-auctions.com/en/winter-auction-2018/13549-follower-of-hendrick-van-balen-antwerp-school-holy-family-oil-on-panel-16-17th-c?"> Rob Michiels</a> sold another version of the same composition, this time attributed to a Follower of Hendrick van Balen (I couldn't find an actual overview photo of the painting, only this central part). They also have approximately the same dimensions (124 by 90 cm, versus 121 by 82 cm). It sold for 4,400 Euro (costs included).<br />
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<a href="https://www.dorotheum.com/en/l/5441070/">Dorotheum</a> sold in 2013 a flower garland with this composition inside for 61,000 Euro. According to the <a href="https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/images/269915">RKD</a>, it should be attributed to the workshop of Frans Francken II; at the auction, it was attributed to Jan Brueghel II.<br />
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Despite all these big Flemish names, it looks as if the original or the direct inspiration for this work should be sought in Italy, with Bartolomeo Cavarozzi (1587-1625). He painted many similar works, with e.g. the first two above (said to be copies after Cavarozzi) showing the exact same position of the hands. The second of those is from <a href="https://www.kollerauktionen.ch/fr/98631-0001------1152-CAVAROZZI_-BARTOLOMEO-_ZEITGE-1152_32823.html">Koller</a>, 2010. The other two are authentic Cavarozzi.<br />
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I presume that some engraving made this work popular in Flanders, but I haven't found it.Francis Moutonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08107574903280657353noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1182607262530091408.post-90255403865250217532019-12-08T20:00:00.000+01:002019-12-09T15:07:42.457+01:00The many variations of an Early Netherlandish "Throne of Mercy"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://www.bernaerts.eu/item-detail.php?veil=c1055&item=6&zitting=1">Bernaerts</a>, from Belgium, sells on 9 December 2019 a "Flemish, anonymous, late 16th century" Trinity, estimated at 2,000 to 3,000 Euro.<br />
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They describe it as a version of a much-copied painting from the <a href="https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/master-of-the-prodigal-son-pieta">National Gallery</a> by the Master of the Prodigal Son.<br />
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In fact it is much closer to a composition which I already described in a blog post from <a href="https://auctionaugur.blogspot.com/2018/11/17th-century-flemish-school-goes-back.html">November 2018</a>, and which goes back to a (lost?) Rogier van der Weyden work. The image shows the Trinity in a specific pose usually called a Throne of Mercy.<br />
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That post contained a few images of such compositions, but there are many further versions of this composition around, many of them quite elaborate, and attributed to a wide variety of artists. Most of these I found through the <a href="http://balat.kikirpa.be/search_photo.php">BALat / Kik-Irpa</a> phototeque search.<br />
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A somewhat less close copy, as the center piece for a triptych, is attributed to Jean Bellegambe and kept in the <a href="http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=B195811&objnr=40002378&nr=290">Museum of Fine Arts in Lille</a> (a museum, by the way, with a fairly good collection of Early Netherlandish paintings, including works by Dirk Bouts).<br />
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<i>Colijn de Coter, Louvre</i> <br />
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<i>Joos van Cleve</i> </div>
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<i>Copy after Robert Campin</i> </div>
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<i>Another copy after Campin</i> </div>
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<i>Master of the Holy Blood? (Brussels)</i></div>
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<i>Antwerp School, 1525 (Christie's 2014)</i></div>
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But the actual original work is most closely followed in a few very nice copies. Apart from the one in Museum M in Leuven (given in the earlier blog post), these included one by Colijn de Coter from the<a href="http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=B125314&objnr=40003960&nr=292"> Louvre</a>, one attributed to Joos van Cleve (<a href="http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=B158167&objnr=50006583&nr=300">location unknown</a>), a copy after Robert Campin from the <a href="http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=B106308&objnr=20056149&nr=42">Fanch collection</a>, another very similar copy after Campin (<a href="http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=A122541&objnr=50006576&nr=59">location unknown</a>), and one tentatively attributed to the Master of the Holy Blood (from the <a href="http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=B228901&objnr=20025644&nr=277">Brussels Museum of Fine Arts</a>). Another version of this, given to "Antwerp School, ca. 1525" was sold at <a href="https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/paintings/antwerp-school-circa-1525-the-throne-of-5857534-details.aspx?from=salesummery&intobjectid=5857534&sid=6d471916-9fe8-48d3-8ef0-f2e71b5e9069">Christie's</a> in 2014 for £50,000.<br />
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At some point another major version evolved, only showing the trinity (Father, son, and Holy Ghost as a dove) without the angels or the background. The one for sale now, and the one for sale in the previous post, are examples of this, but other ones are known. The main variations are the Father either looking straight ahead (closer to the examples above), or to the side (showing more grief and less majesty).<br />
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<i>Northern French artist</i> </div>
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<i>Follower of Hugo Van der Goes (Verviers)</i><br />
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<i>Unknown painter, Brussels</i><br /><br />
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<i>Unknown painter, Marke</i> </div>
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Examples include one from an unknown Northern French artist (<a href="http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=B022893&objnr=50007344&nr=302">location unknown</a>), a Follower of Hugo van der Goes from the <a href="http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=B177274&objnr=10105377&nr=22">Verviers City Museum</a>, which is actually very close to the work for sale (but better executed), an unknown painter (<a href="http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=B123092&objnr=20000394&nr=267">Brussels, Social Services Museum</a>) (even closer to the one for sale), and an unknown painter from the <a href="http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=B230764&objnr=157208&nr=166">De Béthune collection</a> in Marke, Flanders.<br />
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<i>1504 triptych, Lessines</i></div>
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<i>Follower of Campin, Berlin </i></div>
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<i>Jean Bellegambe, Douai</i></div>
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<i>Master of the Virgo inter Virgines (Zagreb)</i></div>
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Further variations can be seen in a rather naive triptych from 1504, now in the Hospital Museum in <a href="http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=X015023&objnr=10151812&nr=28">Lessines</a>, a follower of Campin in the <a href="http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=B171616&objnr=40004736&nr=55">Museum of Berlin</a> (an intermediate form between the two major versions), the central painting from a major polyptych by Jean Bellegambe, from the <a href="http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=B149496&objnr=40005637&nr=57">Museum of Douai</a>, and even a "Master of the Virgo inter Virgines" from the Strossmayer Gallery in Zagreb.<br />
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The original version of this intermediate form (Father frontal, background, but no angels) may be found in a Robert Campin from the <a href="https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/digital-collection/01.%20paintings/38869/!ut/p/z1/jZDLTsMwEEV_hS6yxJ48nKTdWUailBajikfwBrlV6hglduSYRuLrMYgNCEJnN9KZO2cGC1xhYeRRK-m1NbIN_ZPInzmleZwyWHFGLoDy7S3ZsptLiDP8-AnAH0UBi1PmJwAxHb_6b0G4IHEbtlFY9NI359ocLK4gRme91MZrowZcpWWZz4OL-JF2dV2EtDuy5PyBJSz7AqZ99K5D475DgEhCIE7nAGWRFFmZf8hQs0vLIOPqQ-1qh15d-HLjfT8sIohgHEekrFVtjfa2i-C3kcYOHlffSdx399XbegkvpD2u6Wz2Dtkf3Rs!/dz/d5/L2dBISEvZ0FBIS9nQSEh/?lng=nl">Hermitage</a>. Note that this is one of the very few in the long list of images where the left hand of Christ (right from our point of view) is hanging down instead of being open, to show the stigmata. But in essence it clearly is the same composition.<br />
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Related to this is a work supposed to be by Robert Campin as well, from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. It is not a painting but a kind of bejeweled embroidery, which I only found through sites selling art reproductions, not directly, so I give the information for what it's worth.<br />
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Like I said, one of the most often copied or reinterpreted Early Netherlandish paintings you can find, with many great names associated. <br />
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Francis Moutonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08107574903280657353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1182607262530091408.post-54817716319274383652019-12-03T20:00:00.000+01:002019-12-04T08:50:17.151+01:00Interesting lots at BonteCarlo Bonte, from Belgium, sells on 7 December some interesting works.<br />
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<a href="http://www.carlobonte.be/nl/catalog/12/item/32268?catalog=75">Lot 486</a> is a "16th century" "portrait of Petrus van Bergh", a msall oil on panel (20 by 22 cm) estimated at 1,500 to 2,000 Euro.<br />
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While the sitter is clearly named (and a weapon given as well), it is weird that the portrait shows the Order of the Golden Fleece, but that I can't find any trace of a "Van Bergh" who was a member of that highly selective order in those years.<br />
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Looking further reveals that this painting is a copy after the Master of the Magdalen Legend (as found through <a href="https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/images/48561">RKD</a>), a work last seen in 1931 (and then sold as "Barend van Orley") which shows an unknown, unnamed member of the Order. The painting for sale is not only clearly inferior, it also is smaller than the original one, so it isn't the same work in a badly overpainted version. Whether cleaning it will remove more than just the incorrect name, and perhaps reveal a stronger copy of the original, remains to be seen. But it is a good reminder that while inscriptions may be a good pointer, they can also be very misleading.<br />
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<a href="http://www.carlobonte.be/nl/catalog/12/item/32412?catalog=75">Lot 488</a> is a "17th century" Saint Peter, estimated at 1,200 to 1,800 Euro.<br />
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The work seems closely related to or inspired by a Saint Peter by (the Workshop of) Rubens, in the <a href="https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.46056.html">National Gallery of Art</a> in Washington. Same keys, same dress, similar head, as if someone else was drawing the same model at the same time but from a different angle. Probably just a coincidence, but still quite a strong one. Perhaps a copy after an unknown (to me that is) Rubens? <br />
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<a href="http://www.carlobonte.be/nl/catalog/12/item/33004?catalog=75">Lot 497</a> is a "17th or 18th century" Holy Family with angels, estimated at 3,000 to 5,000 Euro.<br />
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It seems to be made by a follower of Pieter van Avont and Abraham Govaerts, comparable to (but of lesser quality than) one that was sold at <a href="https://www.lempertz.com/en/catalogues/lot/966-1/4-pieter-van-avont-attributed-to-and-abraham-govaerts.html">Lempertz</a> in 2010 for 10,800 Euro.<br />
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<a href="http://www.carlobonte.be/nl/catalog/12/item/32410?catalog=75">Lot 529</a>, a "Flemish, 16th century" rest on the flight to Egypt, is estimated at 5,000 to 8,000 Euro.<br />
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It is from the workshop or a close follower of the Master of the Parrot, and can be compared (though reversed) to one sold at <a href="https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/workshop-of-the-master-of-the-parrot-6216953-details.aspx">Christie's</a> this year, which fetched £13,750 (but was better than the one for sale here) and another from <a href="https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/the-master-of-the-parrot-active-antwerp-4640423-details.aspx">Christie's</a> sold in 2005, which went for £38,400 (note the eponymous parrot and the fruit bowl in this example). <br />
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<a href="http://www.carlobonte.be/nl/catalog/12/item/32413?catalog=75">Lot 531</a> is a "16th century" Adoration of the Magi, estimated at 2,000 to 4,000 Euro. It has had a quite fascinating restoration. At first I thought there was some digital error in the image, but it turns out to be a split in the painting which hasn't been completely closed, and which has some white bands behind it. Almost like a piece of modern art! Francis Moutonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08107574903280657353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1182607262530091408.post-87419848155753679102019-11-29T20:00:00.000+01:002019-11-29T20:00:01.497+01:00"Tulip market at Lier harbour" isn't at Lier...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://www.hampel-auctions.com/o/Philippe-de-Momper-d-J-um-1610-1675.html?a=121&s=-1&id=978&acl=1210121&g=Gemaelde-16-18-Jhdt">Hampel</a>, from Germany, sells on 5 December 2019 a "Philips de Mompere the Younger" "Tulip market at the harbour of Lier", estimated at 35,000 to 40,000 Euro.<br />
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The attribution and description are attributed to Klaus Ertz, an expert who has (as the saying goes) forgotten more about Flemish art than I ever knew. They claim to clearly recognise the Saint Gummarus church and the Beguinage, and thus indicate that this painting is very important as a witness of Lier during this period, and how the city tried to overcome economic hardship by using the tulip trade so well known from the Netherlands.<br />
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The only problem is that this isn't Lier at all. The <i>original</i> of this painting shows Lier, but this is a copy where the buildings have been changed to (presumably) some imaginary, generalized (and much worse painted) city. Ertz should know this, as he had (according to the <a href="https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/images/61874">RKD</a>) included this painting, which was originally sold in 1979 at Christie's, as "circle of Joos de Mompere" in his catalogue in 1986, and correctly identified the city as Lier. <br />
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The most obvious difference is the city hall with the belfry. The actual hall has been remodelled in a neoclassical style afterwards , but the Belfry (with the peculiar top) is clearly the same in the original painting, and clearly different (though based on the real one) in the one for sale.<br />
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But also the supposed Saint Gummarus church looks totally different compared to the actual one.<br />
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Another version of this work is kept in the <a href="https://lier.openvld.be/library/266/files/2429_infostraat_waar_is_de_tijd_grote_markt_lier.pdf">Lier City Museum</a> and is attributed to Philips de Mompere as well. The buildings are again very precisely painted (though rearranged in a fictional setting). <br />
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The work was previously offered in June 2019 in France, at <a href="http://www.tessier-sarrou.com/html/fiche.jsp?id=10435058&np=&lng=fr&npp=&ordre=&aff=&r=">Tessier Sarrou</a>, with an estimate of 10,000 to 15,000 Euro (I don't know the result of this sale). That auction gave the much better description of "Market in a village square", and a much better attribution of "Follower of Jan Brueghel II".<br />
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It almost looks as if a version of the actual Lier painting was found in an unfnished state, and some less talented painter filled in the background with some buildings and churches. Not really Lier...Francis Moutonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08107574903280657353noreply@blogger.com0