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JAN BRUEGHEL THE YOUNGER (ANTWERP 1601-1678)

Lot 36
09.11.2022 19:00UTC -05:00
Classic
Starting price
$ 4 000 000
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Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 838952
Lot 36 | JAN BRUEGHEL THE YOUNGER (ANTWERP 1601-1678)
Estimate value
$ 4 000 000 – 6 000 000
JAN BRUEGHEL THE YOUNGER (ANTWERP 1601-1678)

The Five Senses: Sight, Touch, Hearing, Taste and Smell

oil on panel, Touch with the coat of arms of the city of Antwerp and the stamp of the panel maker Guilliam Aertssens (active 1612/13-1638?)

Sight and Smell, 27 5/8 x 44 5/8 in. (70.2 x 113.3 cm.); Hearing, 27 x 43 in. (68.6 x 109.2 cm.); Taste, 27 x 43 3/8 in. (68.6 x 110.1 cm.) and Touch, 27 3/8 x 44 5/8 in. (69.5 x 113.3 cm.)

(5)four with two sets of inventory numbers: the first with 'N75' and 'No:138.'; the second with 'N73' and 'No:153.'; the third with 'N7*' and 'No: 140' and the fourth with 'N..' and 'N 151' (all lower right)

a set of five





Provenance

Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, Vienna (by 1720, then by descent in the Imperial Collection, deaccessioned by 1796).

Josef Karl Ritter von Klinkosch, Vienna (by 1873); Estate sale, Miethke, Vienna, 2 April 1889, lots 27-32 (as Jan Brueghel the Elder and Hendrick van Balen; with incorrect provenance from Archduke Leopold Wilhelm).

Isidore Ritter von Klinkosch (acquired at the above sale).

Baron Wodianer, Vienna (by 1906-1907).

Anon. sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 20 April 1907, lots 3-7 (as Jan Breughel the Elder and Hendrick van Balen).

Marino Vagliano (acquired at the above sale, then by descent).

Private collection; sale, Christie’s, New York, 3 October 2001, lot 98 (world auction record for the artist at the time of sale).

Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.



Literature

F. Storffer, Neu eingerichtes Inventarium der Kayl. Bilder Gallerie in der Stallburg welches nach denen Numeris und Maßstab ordiniret und von Ferdinand à Storffer gemahlen worden, 1720, vol. I, nos. 123, 131, 133, 142 and 144, a painted inventory of the Imperial Collections in Vienna, the original held in the archive of the Gemäldegalerie, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (as by Leux (sic Luyckx)).

A.J. von Prenner, Theatrum artis pictoriae, Vienna, 1728 (engraved, as attributed to Hans Jordaens).

A.J. von Prenner and F. van Stampart, Prodromus, 1735, a preliminary catalogue of the Imperial Collections of Austria in the Stallburg Gallery, Vienna.

Listed in the Inventarium über die in der Kaiserl. Königl. Bildergallerie vorhandenen Bilder und Gemälde, 1772, inv. nos. 128 (Smell), 138 (Sight), 140 (Touch), 151 (Hearing), and 153 (Taste), the original held in the archive of the Gemäldegalerie, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

C. von Mechel, Verzeichnis der Gemälde der Kaiserlich Königlichen Bilder Gallerie in Wien, Vienna, 1783, p. 140, nos. 4-8 (as by Leux (sic Luyckx)).

A.J. von Prenner and F. van Stampart, "Prodromus (1735)" in Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen des Allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses, Vienna, 1888, vol. VII, pls. 6 and 7.

T. von Frimmel, Geschichte der Wiener Gemäldesammlungen, Leipzig and Berlin, 1899, p. 184.

E. Ebenstein, "Der Hofmaler Frans Luycx" in Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorische Sammlungen des Allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses, 1906-1907, vol. XXVI, pp. 216-218, nos. 123, 131, 133, 142 and 144.

T. von Frimmel, Lexikon der Wiener Gemäldesammlungen, Munich, 1914, vol. II, p. 404.

S. Speth-Holterhoff, Les Peintres Flamands de Cabinet D'Amateurs au XVIIe Siècle, Brussels, 1957, pp. 113-114 and 207, note 74 (as by Hans Jordaens).

M. Díaz Padrón, Museo del Prado. Catálogo de Pinturas, I, Escuela Flamenca, Siglo XVII, Madrid, 1975, pp. 40-46, under nos. 1394-1398.

K. Ertz, Jan Breughel der Jüngere (1601-1678): Die Gemälde mit kritischem Oeuvrekatalog, Freren, 1984, vol. I, pp. 69 and 344-348, nos. 178-183 (illustrated, pp. 344-345 and 347-348; Hearing illustrated in color, pl. 37).

A. Scarpa Sonino, Cabinet D'Amateur, Le Grandi Collezioni d'Arte nei Dipinti dal XVII al XIX Secolo, Milan, 1992, p. 22ff.

M. Díaz Padrón and M. Royo-Villanova, David Teniers, Jan Brueghel y Los Gabinetes de Pinturas, exh. cat., Madrid, 1992, pp. 133, 138 and 146, under nos. 11, 12 and 14.

M. Díaz Padrón, El Siglo de Rubens en el Museo del Prado. Catálogo Razonado de Pintura Flamenca del Siglo XVII, Madrid, 1995, vol, I, pp. 264-287, under nos. 1394-1398 (Sight illustrated, p. 264; Hearing illustrated, p. 274; Smell illustrated, p. 278; Taste illustrated, p. 280 and Touch illustrated, p. 284).



Exhibited

Vienna, Österreichisches Museum für Kunst und Industrie, Gemälde aus dem Wiener Privatbesitze, 1873, pp. 22-23, nos. 86-90.

Seattle, Experience Music Project, DoubleTake: From Monet to Lichtenstein, April 2006-January 2007.

Maine, Portland Art Museum; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; New Orleans Museum of Art and Seattle Art Museum, Seeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection, October 2015-May 2017, pp. 34-35, nos. 1-5 (illustrated in color, p. 35).



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Artist:Jan Brueghel II (1601 - 1678)
Applied technique:Oil on panel
Art style:Baroque, Old Masters
Genre:Allegory, Still life
Place of origin:Belgium, Western Europe, Europe
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