Property from a Dutch Private Collector
Follower of Jan Brueghel the Elder
A concert of birds, or an Allegory of Sound
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Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Bid
6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Dutch Private Collector
Follower of Jan Brueghel the Elder
A concert of birds, or An Allegory of Sound
bears monogram lower right: JS (or RS)
oil on copper
unframed: 14.8 x 20 cm.; 5⅞ x 7⅞ in.
framed: 23.4 x 29 cm.; 9¼ x 11⅜ in.
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 28 November 1975, lot 97 (as Jan van Kessel).
This composition probably derives from a lost prototype by Jan Brueghel the Elder, and the numerous copies and variations known attest to its popularity. While some versions are attributed to Jan van Kessel and Ferdinand van Kessel, the present iteration comes closest to those known by Jan Brueghel the Younger.1
1 See, for example, Jan Brueghel the Younger's oil on copper in the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum in Braunschweig, inv. no. 73, reproduced in K. Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Jüngere, Freren 1984, pp. 492–93, no. 322.
