BARTHOLOMÄUS BRUYN I (WESEL or COLOGNE 1493-1555 COLOGNE)
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ID 1362450
Lot 117 | BARTHOLOMÄUS BRUYN I (WESEL or COLOGNE 1493-1555 COLOGNE)
Estimate value
60000USD $ 60 000 – 80 000
The exterior wings of an altarpiece: The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne; and Saint Elizabeth of Hungary Giving Alms
oil on panel
15 ½ x 7 ¼ in. (39.5 x 18 cm.), each(2)
a pair
Provenance
Johann Georg Schmitz (1761-1845), Cologne; his deceased sale, J.M. Heberle, Cologne, 20 September 1846, lot 59, where acquired by,
Christophe Rhaban Ruhl (1802-1875), Cologne; his deceased sale, J.M. Heberle, Cologne, 13 May 1876, lots 11-12 (sold with the interior of the wings, lots 9-10).
Consul Eduard Friedrich Weber (1830-1907), Hamburg, by 1904; his deceased sale, Rudolph Lepke, Berlin, 20-22 February 1912, lot 65, where acquired by,
Gustav von Klemperer (1852-1926), Dresden, and by descent to,
Ralph Leopold von Klemperer (1884-1956), Dresden, by whom sold circa 1937.
Eugène Leopold Garbáty (1885-1966), Schloss Alt-Döbern, Nieder-Lausitz and later Shorehaven, CT; [The Property of Eugene L. Garbaty, Esq.], Sotheby’s, London, 25 April 1956, lot 74, acquired for £380 by the following,
with Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, by October 1956.
The Elwood and Olive Hosmer Collection, Charles R. Hosmer House, Montreal, and by inheritance to their cousin's wife,
Mrs. Lucille Elizabeth Pillow, née Fairbank (1883-1969), Montreal, circa 1960, and by descent.
Gifted to Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, Canada, November 1996.
Restituted to the heirs of Ralph von Klemperer by Beaverbrook Art Gallery in 2024.
Literature
J.J. Merlo, Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Werken Kölnischer Künstler, Cologne, 1850, p. 71.
G. Parthey, Deutscher Bildersaal, I, Berlin, 1863, pp. 210-211, no. 30.
J. von Pflugk-Hartung, 'Die Weber'sche Gemäldesammlung', Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft, 1885, p. 82.
E. Firmenich-Richartz, Bartholomaeus Bruyn und seine Schule: eine kunsthistorische studie, Leipzig, 1891, pp. 60 and 109.
K. Woermann, Wissenschaftliches verzeichnis der Älteren Gemälde der Galerie Weber in Hamburg, Dresden, 1892, p. 52, no. 59.
E. Firmenich-Richartz, Katalog der kunsthistorischen Ausstellung in Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, 1904, p. 30, no. 70.
L. Scheibler, 'Die kunsthistorische Ausstellung zu Düsseldorf 1904. Die altniederländischen und altdeutschen Gemälde', Repertorium für Kunst-wissenschaft, 1904, p. 561, no. 70.
K. Woermann, Wissenschaftliches Verzeichnis der älteren Gemälde der Galerie Weber in Hamburg, Dresden, 1907, no. 59.
'Der Kunstmarkt - von den Auktionen. Die Auktion der Sammlung Weber', Der Cicerone, 1912, p. 188, no. 65.
Advertisement, The Burlington Magazine, XCVIII, no. 643, October 1956, p. ix, illustrated.
J. Tümmers, Die Altarbilder des älteren Bartholomäus Bruyn, Cologne, 1964, p. 77, nos. A 71-72.
S. Blöcker, N. Buchmann, G. Goldberg and R. Krischel, Lust und Verlust II. Corpus-Band zu Kölner Gemäldesammlungen 1800-1860, Cologne, 1998, p. 334, no. 59b.
Exhibited
Dusseldorf, Kunsthistorische Ausstellung, 1904, no. 70.
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Barthel Bruyn, 1493–1555, 1955, nos. 254 and 255.
Montreal, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada Collects: European Painting, 19 January-21 February 1960, nos. 89 and 90.
Montreal, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Images of the Saints, 5 March-4 April 1965, nos. 41 and 42.
Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
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Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
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Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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