Showing posts with label Toorenvliet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Toorenvliet. Show all posts

Friday, 3 April 2015

Dutch School or Toorenvliet?



At Bonham's, you can buy on 14 April 2015 two nice paintings from the Dutch School, 18th century, depicting a vegetable seller and a fruit seller. Combined estimate of £2,000 to £3,000, which is cheap for the quality. UPDATE: not sold.


Strangely, a different  (larger) version of the latter one was for sale just last week at Auctionata, estimated at 9,000 Euro (but apparently unsold), and attributed to Jacob Toorenvliet. According to the RKD, it used to have a pendant, but they are no longer together. Could it have the same image as the pendant in our sale here? In any case, I think it is safe to attribute the two paintings for sale as "Circle of Jacob Toorenvliet". The paintings for sale have a rougher finish, but are not worse, just different (e.g. showing the muscles of the woman), and from these pictures I actually prefer the ones for sale now.

Monday, 9 February 2015

Medea or Lucretia


Not a terribly well executed painting, but interesting to see how attribution and subject can change on these. For sale at Balclis, 11 February, is a "Flemish School, ca. 1720, Jason and Medea", starting price 600 Euro. UPDATE: sold for 900 Euro.

The same or an extremely similar painting was sold in 2002 at Christie's as "Circle of Jacob Toorenvliet, the Rape of Lucretia" for $1,844. So now you can, if you are lucky, buy it for a third of the price... I don't really see a depiction of Jason and Medea in this picture though, the Rape of Lucretia seems a lot more likely. I can't judge the earlier attribution to the circle of Toorenvliet.