Property from the Collection of Dr. Hinrich Bischoff
Hans van Wechelen
Peasants Making Merry at a Village Wedding
Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Collection of Dr. Hinrich Bischoff
Hans van Wechelen
active in Antwerp in the mid-sixteenth century
Peasants Making Merry at a Village Wedding
signed on each tree trunk: VW
oil on oak panel
panel: 15 by 20 ¾ in.; 38.0 by 52.6 cm
framed: 21 ⅛ by 27 in.; 53.7 by 68.6 cm
Private collection, United States;
Anonymous sale (“The Property of a Gentleman”), London, Sotheby’s, 1 April 1992, lot 57;
With Johnny van Haeften, London, 1992;
Dr. Hinrich Bischoff (1936-2005), by 1993;
Thence by inheritance.
Cologne, Wallraff-Richartz-Museum, long-term loan, 1993-2025 (inv. no. Dep. 824).
C. Stukenbrock, in Das Kabinett des Sammlers, Gemälde vom XV. Bis XVIII. Jahrhundert, E. Mai (ed.), Cologne 1993, pp. 69-70, cat. no. 27, reproduced p. 71.
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