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HENDRICK TER BRUGGHEN (THE HAGUE 1588-1629 UTRECHT)

Lot 21
25.01.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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ID 887503
Lot 21 | HENDRICK TER BRUGGHEN (THE HAGUE 1588-1629 UTRECHT)
Estimate value
$ 800 000 – 1 200 000
HENDRICK TER BRUGGHEN (THE HAGUE 1588-1629 UTRECHT)

Unequal lovers

signed in monogram 'HTB' (lower right, on the pewter vessel)

oil on canvas

29 1/4 x 34 1/2 in. (74.3 x 89.2 cm)





Provenance

Major H.M. Salmon, Tockington Manor, South Gloucestershire; Christie's, London, 4 October 1946, lot 33, as Caravaggio, 85 gns. to the following,

with Arcade Gallery, London, 1947.

with Christian Faerber, Gothenburg, 1952.

Claes Philip, Stockholm, by 1958,

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 8 July 1982, lot 91.

with Stanley Moss, Riverdale, New York.

Shearson Lehman Brothers, New York,

with Stanley Moss, Riverdale New York.

Barbara Fish Lee, Boston.

with Otto Naumann, Ltd, New York, where acquired 9 June 2005 by the present owner.



Literature

B. Nicolson, 'The Rijksmuseum 'Incredulity' and Terbrugghen's Chronology', The Burlington Magazine, XCVIII, 1956, pp. 107 and 110, fig. 6.

B. Nicolson, Hendrick Terbrugghen, London, 1958, pp. 9-10, 15, 24, 83, 85-86, and 94-95, no. A64, pl. 88, as Scene of Mercenary Love.

B. Nicolson, 'Terbrugghen's Old Man Writing', Bulletin of the Smith College Museum of Art, XXXVIII, 1958, p. 54.

H. Gerson, 'Review of Nicolson's 'Hendrick Terbrugghen', Kunstchronik, XII, 1959, p. 318.

B. Nicolson, 'Second Thoughts about Terbrugghen', The Burlington Magazine, CII, 1960, p. 496, note 13.

'Terbrugghen', Sele Arte, VIII, no. 46, 1960, p. 37, illustrated.

J.R. Judson, 'Benedict Nicholson's Hendrick Terbrugghen', The Art Bulletin, XLIII, 1961, pP. 342, 343, 344 and 348.

L. Slatkes, Hendrick Terbrugghen in America, exhibition catalogue, Dayton, 1965, p. 16-19.

H. Braun, Gerard und Wilem van Honthorst, Ph.D. diss., Universität of Göttingen, Göttingen, 1966, p. 243 and 330.

I. Bergström 'Maîtres hollandais au Musée de Stockholm', L'Oeil, CXLIX, 1967, p. 4, fig. 1.

P.J.J. van Thiel, 'De Aanbidding der Konigen en ander vroeg werk van Hendrick ter Brugghen', Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum, XIX, 1971, pp. 102-103, 137.

A. Pigler, Barockthemen, II, Budapest, 1974, p. 570.

C. Eisler, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian, Oxford, 1977, p.129.

B. Wind, 'Close Encounters of the Baroque Kind: Amatory Paintings by Terbrugghen, Baburen, and La Tour', Studies in Iconography, IV, 1978, p. 115-116.

B. Nicolson, The International Caravaggesque Movement, Oxford, 1979, p. 100.

L. Slatkes, 'Review of B. Nicholson's 'The International Caravaggesque Movement'’, Simolius, XII,1981-1982, p. 177 and 182.

L. Slatkes, 'A New Drawing by Hendrick ter Brugghen', Nederlands Kunstistorisch Jaarboek, XXXVIII, 1987, pp. 328-329, fig. 3.

R. Klessman, 'Utrechter Caravaggisten zwischen Manierismus und Klassizismus', Hendrick ter Brugghen und die Nachfolger Caravaggios in Holland. Braunschweig, 1988, p. 60-61, fig. 69.

B. Nicolson, Caravaggism in Europe, ITurin, 1989, p. 195, II; fig. 1179.

O. le Bihan, L'Or et l'Ombre. La peinture hollandaise du XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles au Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, 1990, p. 74, note 23.

P. Sutton, European Paintings from Private Collections of Friends of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, exhibition catalogue, Boston, 1992, pp. 129-130, no. 16, pl. 12.

T. Döring, 'Studien zur Künstlerfamilie van Bronhorst', Alfter, 1993, p. 47, 62, and 66, notes 70, 66 and 143.

W. Franits, 'Zwischen Frömmigkeit und Geiz: Das Alter in Genredastellungen', Bilder vom alten Menschen in der niederländischen und deutschen Kunst 1550 - 1750, exhibition catalogue, 1993, Braunschweig, pp. 81-82, fig. 74.

C. Ishikawa et. al., A Gift to America. Masterpieces of European Painting from Samuel H. Kress Collection', exhibition catalogue, New York, 1993, p. 153.

A. Blankert, 'Caravaggio e i Paesi Bassi settentrionali', Paesi Bassi e Italia fra Cinquecento e Seicento, Rome, 1995, p. 135, fig. 31.

L. Slatkes, 'Hendrick ter Brugghen's Gamblers', The Minneapolis Institute of Arts Bulletin, LXVII, 1995, p. 10.

L. Slatkes, 'Brugghen, Hendrick (Jansz,) ter', The Dictionary of Art, London, 1996, pp. 3-4.

W. Franits, 'Emerging from the Shadows: Genre Painting by the Utrecht Caravaggisti and Its Contemporary Reception', Masters of Light: Dutch Painters in Utrecht during the Golden Age, exhibition catalogue, New Haven and London, 1997, p. 116, fig. 4.

P. Huys Janssen, Jan van Bijlert (1597/98-1671). Catalogue Raisonné, Amsterdam and Philadelphia, 1998, p. 66, note 32.

J. R. Judson & R. E.O. Ekkart, Gerrit van Honthorst 1592-1656, Doornspijk, 1999, p. 222-223.

W. Franits, Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting. Its Stylistic and Thematic Evolution, New Haven & London, 2004, p. 10 and 72-74, fig. 68.

A. Blankert, 'Hendrick ter Brugghen and Dutch Caravaggism', Selected Writings on Dutch Painting, Zwolle, 2004, p. 168.

N.T. Seaman, Archaism and the Critique of Caravaggio in the Religious Paintings of Hendrick ter Brugghen, Ph.D. diss., Boston University, 2006, p. 182, fig. 91.

L.J. Slatkes and W. Franits, The Paintings of Henrick Ter Brugghen. Catalogue Raisonné, Amsterdam and Philadelphia, 2007, p. 20, 54-56, 58, 82, 160-162, 168, 212, 279-280, 294, 357 and 436 , no. A51, pl. X, fig. 54.



Exhibited

Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Holländska Mästere I Svensk Ägo, 3 March-30 April 1967, cat. 159.

Utrecht, Centraal Museum, and Branschweig, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Nieuw Licht op de gouden eeuw. Hendrick ter Brugghen en tijdgenoten, 13 November 1986-12 January 1987, no. 14.

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, European Paintings from Private Collections of Friends of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 17 June-16 August 1992, no. 16.

Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art; Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum; Dayton, The Dayton Art Institute, Sinners & Saints, Darkness and Light: Caravaggio and His Dutch and Flemish Followers, 27 September-13 December 1998; 29 January -18 April 1999; 8 May-18 July 1999, no. 11.



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This lot is offered without reserve.
Artist:Hendrick Jansz Terbrugghen (1588 - 1629)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Genre:Genre art
Place of origin:Western Europe, Europe, The Netherlands
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