ID 770968
Lot 23 | JAN SANDERS VAN HEMESSEN (HEMESSEN C. 1504-1556 ANTWERP)
Estimate value
$ 1 000 000 – 1 500 000
The Bagpiper and Merry Wife
signed(?) 'IOÊS DE HEMESSEN PINXIT' (lower right, on the tankard)
oil on panel
18 x 23 5⁄8 in. (45.7 x 60 cm.)
Provenance
Sir Henry Ibbetson, 1st Bt. (1706-1761), Denton Park, Yorkshire, and by descent to his son,
Sir James Ibbetson, 2nd Bt. (1746-1795), Denton Park, Yorkshire, and by descent to his son,
Sir Charles Ibbetson, 4th Bt. (1779-1839), Denton Park, Yorkshire, and by inheritance with Denton Park through his daughter Laura (after 1812-1859) to her husband,
Marmaduke Wyvill, M.P. (1815-1896), Constable Burton, Yorkshire, to where the contents of Denton Park were moved in 1902 after its dispersal.
Anonymous Sale; Hollis & Webb, Leeds, 16 April 1957, lot 259, as 'Q. Matsys', where acquired for £720 by the following,
with Thos. Agnew & Sons, London.
Literature
'Notable Works of Art now on the Market', The Burlington Magazine, Supplement, XCIX, no. 57, December 1957, pl. V, as 'Jan van Hemessen'.
B. Wallen, Jan van Hemessen: An Antwerp Painter Between Reform and Counter-Reform, Ann Arbor, 1983, p. 297, under no. 21, as 'probably a workshop replica'.
Artist: | Jan Van Hemessen (1500 - 1566) |
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Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
Art style: | High Renaissance, Renaissance |
Genre: | Genre art, Portrait |
Place of origin: | Belgium, Western Europe, Europe |
Auction house category: | Paintings |
Artist: | Jan Van Hemessen (1500 - 1566) |
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Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
Art style: | High Renaissance, Renaissance |
Genre: | Genre art, Portrait |
Place of origin: | Belgium, Western Europe, Europe |
Auction house category: | Paintings |
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