Old Master Paintings Day Auction

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Property from the Collection of Dr Hinrich Bischoff, Sold Without Reserve

Quiringh Gerritsz. van Brekelenkam

Interior with an old woman reading and a man smoking a pipe

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5,000 - 7,000 GBP

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4,500 GBP

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Property from the Collection of Dr Hinrich Bischoff, Sold Without Reserve


Quiringh Gerritsz. van Brekelenkam

Zwammerdam circa 1622/30–after 1669 Leiden

Interior with an old woman reading and a man smoking a pipe

 

signed and dated, lower centre-right: Q v B 1652 ·

oil on oak panel

unframed: 25.2 x 31.5 cm.; 9⅞ x 12⅜ in.

framed: 39 x 45.2 cm.; 15⅜ x 17¾ in. 

Count Albéric du Chastel (1842–1919), Château de la Havette, Spa;

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby’s, 24 March 1976, lot 94 (as Quiryn van Brekelenkam), for £4,200;

With Brian L. Koetser, London (according to a label on the reverse);

Dr Hinrich Bischoff (1936–2005), by 1986;

Thence by inheritance.

Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, on loan until March 2025.

P. Mantz, ‘La galerie de M. Suermondt’, in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. 9, 1874, p. 445;

H. Havard, ‘Quiringh Brekelenkam’, in L’Art et les artistes hollandaise, vol. IV, Paris 1881, p. 125;

C. Heße und M. Schlagenhaufer, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Köln. Vollständiges Verzeichnis der Gemäldesammlung, Cologne 1986, pp. 15 and 183, reproduced fig. 280;

A. Lasius, Quiringh Gerritsz. van Brekelenkam, PhD thesis, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen 1987, p. 321, no. 109;

A. Lasius, Quiringh van Brekelenkam, Doornspijk 1992, p. 110, no. 109, reproduced in colour pl. VI;

C. Stukenbrock, in Das Kabinett des Sammlers. Gemälde vom XV. bis XVIII. Jahrhundert, E. Mai (ed.), Cologne 1993,  pp. 93–95, no. 35, reproduced in colour.