Lot No. 508


Circle of Pieter Brueghel II (Brussels 1564–1638 Antwerp)


Circle of Pieter Brueghel II (Brussels 1564–1638 Antwerp) - Old Master Paintings

Returning from the Kermis, oil on canvas, 95 x 136 cm, framed

Provenance:
Private collection, Rhode-Saint-Genèse, Belgium (1969);
Sale, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 14 March 1978, lot 548;
Belgian private collection.

Literature:
G. Marlier, Pierre Brueghel le Jeune, Brussels 1969, p. 399, fig. 247 (as Pieter Brueghel II);
K. Ertz, Pieter Brueghel der Jüngere, Freren 1988/2000, p. 920, no. A 1326 (as circle of Pieter Brueghel II).

Georges Marlier considered the present painting to be an autograph work by Pieter Brueghel II. Klaus Ertz considers it to be a free reinterpretation, by another hand, of a composition by Brueghel that was with Richard Green, London (see K. Ertz, op. cit., p. 917, no. E 1301). In a certificate, Max Josef Friedländer endorsed the painting as an authentic work by Pieter Brueghel II.

Specialist: Dr. Alexander Strasoldo Dr. Alexander Strasoldo
+43-1-515 60-556

alexander.strasoldo@dorotheum.at

17.10.2012 - 18:00

Realized price: **
EUR 74,700.-
Estimate:
EUR 90,000.- to EUR 110,000.-

Circle of Pieter Brueghel II (Brussels 1564–1638 Antwerp)


Returning from the Kermis, oil on canvas, 95 x 136 cm, framed

Provenance:
Private collection, Rhode-Saint-Genèse, Belgium (1969);
Sale, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 14 March 1978, lot 548;
Belgian private collection.

Literature:
G. Marlier, Pierre Brueghel le Jeune, Brussels 1969, p. 399, fig. 247 (as Pieter Brueghel II);
K. Ertz, Pieter Brueghel der Jüngere, Freren 1988/2000, p. 920, no. A 1326 (as circle of Pieter Brueghel II).

Georges Marlier considered the present painting to be an autograph work by Pieter Brueghel II. Klaus Ertz considers it to be a free reinterpretation, by another hand, of a composition by Brueghel that was with Richard Green, London (see K. Ertz, op. cit., p. 917, no. E 1301). In a certificate, Max Josef Friedländer endorsed the painting as an authentic work by Pieter Brueghel II.

Specialist: Dr. Alexander Strasoldo Dr. Alexander Strasoldo
+43-1-515 60-556

alexander.strasoldo@dorotheum.at


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Auction: Old Master Paintings
Auction type: Saleroom auction
Date: 17.10.2012 - 18:00
Location: Vienna | Palais Dorotheum
Exhibition: 06.10. - 17.10.2012


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