ID 1344015
Lot 17 | GERRIT VAN HONTHORST (UTRECHT 1592-1656)
Estimate value
£ 150 000 – 250 000
Allegory of Lust
signed and dated 'GHonthorst fe. 1628' ('GH' in ligature, lower left)
oil on canvas
37 x 30 ¾ in. (94 x 78 cm.)
Provenance
By family tradition from the Devonshire collection at Chatsworth until 1920, when given to Lady Dorothy Macmillan (née Cavendish), on her marriage in 1920, and thence by descent; [The Property of the Macmillan Trusts, removed from Birchgrove House]; Sotheby's, London, 6 December 1989, lot 73, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
W.E. Franits, 'Emerging from the Shadows: Genre Painting by the Utrecht Caravaggisti and its Contemporary Reception', eds. J. Spicer and L. Federle Orr, Masters of Light: Dutch Painters in Utrecht in Golden Age, exhibition catalogue, New Haven and London, 1997, pp. 118-19, fig. 7.
J.R. Judson & R.E.O. Ekkart, Gerrit van Honthorst, 1592-1656, Doornspijk, 1999, pp. 196-197, no. 253, pl. 143.
W.E. Franits, Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting: Its Stylistic and Thematic Evolution, New Haven and London, 2004, pp. 81-2, fig. 78.
| Artist: | Gerard van Honthorst (1592 - 1656) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Old Masters |
| Genre: | Allegory, Genre art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Europe, The Netherlands |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Gerard van Honthorst (1592 - 1656) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Old Masters |
| Genre: | Allegory, Genre art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Europe, The Netherlands |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Address of auction |
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