Workshop of Abraham Govaerts
Vertumnus and Pomona
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December 2, 01:01 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
Lot Details
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Workshop of Abraham Govaerts
Antwerp 1589–1626
Vertumnus and Pomona
bears monogram and date lower left, on the tree trunk: J.B. 1625
oil on two-plank oak panel, prepared reverse
unframed: 55 x 85.9 cm.; 21⅝ x 33⅞ in.
framed: 68.3 x 98.7 cm.; 26⅞ x 38⅞ in.
Art market, Zurich, by 1953 (according to a mount at the RKD);
With Harvey Schlichte Bergen, Amsterdam, by August 1974;
From whom acquired by a private collector;
By whom sold anonymously, Paris, Laurin–Guilloux–Buffetaud, 7 December 2001, lot 9 (as Jan Brueghel the Younger);
Where acquired for 600,000 French francs.
Advertisement, in Apollo, vol. XCX, no. 150, August 1974, p. 34, reproduced (as Jan Brueghel the Younger);
Advertisement, in La Gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot, no. 32, 14 September 2001, n.p., reproduced in colour (as Jan Brueghel the Younger).
This composition is closely related to a painting in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (fig. 1), which has been published as the work of Abraham Govaerts, with staffage executed by studio assistants of Frans Francken the Younger (1581–1642).1
1 Inv. no. 1095; oil on panel, 43 x 64 cm.; U. Härting and K. Borms, Abraham Govaerts: Der Waldmaler (1589–1626), Kontich 2003, p. 168, no. 189, reproduced. Härting and Borms also acknowledge the potential involvement of Govaerts' workshop in the Louvre picture.
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