ID 1126316
Lot 151 | BERNHARD KEIL, CALLED MONSÙ BERNARDO (HELSINGÖR 1624-1687 ROME)
Estimate value
$ 80 000 – 120 000
Four peasants in a landscape: an allegory of hearing and sight
oil on canvas
38 x 53 ¾ in. (96.5 x 136.5 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 26 July 1950, lot 161, to the following,
with William Hallsborough Ltd., London.
with Koetser Gallery, New York by 1956, where acquired by the Seattle Art Museum.
Seattle Art Museum (56.52), Seattle.
[Property Sold by the Seattle Art Museum for the Benefit of Its Acquisitions Fund]; Sotheby's, New York, 11 January 1996, lot 25, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
'Accessions of American and Canadian Museums: January-March, 1956',' The Art Quarterly, XIX, 1956, pp. 304-305, illustrated.
P.B. Wilson, 'A Talent for Portraiture,' Christian Science Monitor, 5 October 1972, p. 8.
B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American collections, Cambridge, 1972, pp. 102, 502, 638.
F.W. Robinson, Catalogue of the Flemish and Dutch Paintings, 1400-1900, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, 1980, no. 91a illustrated.
N. Spinosa, 'La pittura con scene di genere,' Storia dell'arte italiana, XI, 1982, illustrated, fig. 76.
M. Heimbürger, Bernardo Kelhau detto Monsu Bernardo, Rome, 1988, p. 227, no. 147, illustrated.
| Artist: | Bernhard Keil (1624 - 1687) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Old Masters |
| Genre: | Allegory |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Denmark, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Bernhard Keil (1624 - 1687) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Old Masters |
| Genre: | Allegory |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Denmark, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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