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JAN BRUEGHEL THE ELDER (BRUSSELS 1568-1625 ANTWERP)

Lot 5
07.12.2023 14:30UTC +00:00
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Lot 5 | JAN BRUEGHEL THE ELDER (BRUSSELS 1568-1625 ANTWERP)
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JAN BRUEGHEL THE ELDER (BRUSSELS 1568-1625 ANTWERP)

The Last Judgement

signed and dated '·BRUEGHEL 1601·' (lower left)

oil on copper

14 1⁄8 x 10 ½ in. (27 x 36 cm.)





Provenance

(Probably) Cardinal Benedetto Giustiniani (1554-1621), Palazzo Giustiniani, S. Luigi dei Francesi, Rome, where first recorded soon after 1601 in the ‘Guardarobba’ inventory, no. 91, as ‘uno del Giuditio’ (see Literature).

(Probably) William Williams of Aberpergwm (1788-1855), Aberpergwm House, Vale of Neath, and by descent to his son,

Morgan Stuart Williams (1846-1909), St. Donat's Castle, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, and by descent to his son,

Godfrey Herbert Joseph Williams (1875-1956), St. Donat's Castle, until its sale in 1922, where the pictures were recorded; Christie’s, London, 4 October 1946, lot 115, with ‘The Fall of the Damned’ and ‘The Deluge’ (three in the lot), where acquired for 190 gns. by the following,

with Edward Speelman, London, from whom all three were acquired in December 1946 by the following,

with P. de Boer, Amsterdam, from whom acquired, with ‘The Fall of the Damned’, in August 1947, for 2,500 florins by,

Comte Jean de Bousies (1899-1966), Brussels; his sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 24 March 1953, lot 7, sold with ‘The Fall of the Damned’.

Private collection, Belgium, from which acquired by the present owner.



Literature

(Possibly) ‘Entrata della Guadarobba‘ of Benedetto Giustiniani, 1600, Archivo di Stato di Roma, Fondo Giustiniani, busta 15, fol. 1054, nos. 91-92, ‘Doi quadri di rame di mano di Brugo con cornice di ebbano uno del Giuditio et uno del diluio’ (reproduced in Squarzina, op. cit., p. 781, nos. 91-2).

(Possibly) Posthumous inventory of Benedetto Giustiniani, lnventarium bonorum bonae memoriae illustrissimi et reverendissimi Domini Cardinalis Benedicti lustiniani, 31 March 1621, Archivo di Stato di Roma, Notai del tribunale AC, fol. 1409r, no. 244, ‘Un giuditio in rame, quadro piccolo,figure piccole, con cornice d'ebbano’ (reproduced in Squarzina, op. cit., p. 790, no. 244).

K. Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Ältere (1568-1625), die Gemälde: mit kritischem Oeuvrekatalog, Cologne, 1979, pp. 77, 119, 125-6, no. 81, fig. 129.

(Possibly) S. D. Squarzina, ‘The collections of Cardinal Benedetto Giustiniani. Part I’, The Burlington Magazine, CXXXIX, no. 1136, November 1997, pp. 781 and 790, nos. 91-2 and 244.

K. Ertz and C. Nitze-Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Ältere (1568-1625): Kritischer Katalog der Gemälde, II, Lingen, 2008, pp. 661-3, no. 322, illlustrated.
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