Collection of Baron de Giey
Studio of Jan van den Hecke the Elder
Wooded landscape with travellers, a covered wagon, cattle and horsemen crossing a ford, a village in the distance
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Collection of Baron de Giey
Studio of Jan van den Hecke the Elder
Kwaremont 1619/1620–1684 Antwerp
Wooded landscape with travellers, a covered wagon, cattle and horsemen crossing a ford, a village in the distance
oil on copper
unframed: 56.2 x 73 cm.; 22⅛ x 28¾ in.
framed: 73.7 x 90.9 cm.; 29 x 35¾ in.
Private collection, New York, by 1983;
Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Lady'), London, Phillips, 2 December 1997, lot 68 (as circle of Jan Brueghel the Younger);
Anonymous sale, Paris, Marc-Arthur Kohn, 6 March 1998, lot 25 (as Peeter Gijsels);
With Xavier Goyet, Marseille;
From whom acquired by the Baron and Baronne de Giey in 1998;
Thence by descent.
This work is based on a smaller composition dated 1607, also painted on copper, by Jan Brueghel the Younger (1601–1678) in the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.1
We are grateful to Dr Jan de Maere for proposing the attribution on the basis of digital images.
1 Inv. no. 1179; oil on copper; 24 x 35 cm.; https://rkd.nl/images/264327
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