The Property of a Distinguished Private Collector
Jan Baptist Weenix
Goats and sheep resting beside a ruined temple
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
The Property of a Distinguished Private Collector
Jan Baptist Weenix
Amsterdam 1621–1660/1 Huis ter Mey
Goats and sheep resting beside a ruined temple
signed and dated at centre left, on the rock: J. Weenix 1656.
oil on canvas
unframed: 59.4 x 73.3 cm.; 23⅜ x 28⅞ in.
framed: 83.7 x 97.3 cm.; 33 x 38¼ in.
Anonymous sale, Versailles, Versailles Enchères Perrin-Royère-Lajeunesse, 24 November 2013, lot 100 (as attributed to Jan Baptist Weenix);
With Klaas Muller, Brussels, by February 2014.
A.A. Van Wagenberg-Ter Hoeven, Jan Baptist Weenix: The Paintings. A story of versatility, success and bankruptcy in seventeenth-century Holland, Zwolle 2018, pp. 191–93, no. 80, reproduced in colour (as Jan Baptist Weenix).
In its spatial configuration, placement of figures, animals and ruins, and the view in the background, this signed and dated painting by Jan Baptist Weenix can be compared with a work in the National Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu, Romania.1
1 Oil on canvas, 54 x 59cm.; Van Wagenberg-Ter Hoeven 2018, p. 127, no. 34.
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