ID 887533
Lot 16 | JAN SANDERS VAN HEMESSEN (HEMIKSEM C. 1500-1556/7 ANTWERP)
Estimate value
$ 1 000 000 – 1 500 000
A Vanitas: As we are born, we die
oil on panel
26 3/8 x 36 in. (67 x 91.5 cm.)
inscribed ‘NASSE.TES MO~ / RIMVR’ (upper center, on the banner)
Provenance
Mrs. Renard, Shepton Mallet, 1907.
Collection de Lafitte du Treihl, and others; Roos, Amsterdam, 16 April 1912, lot 1269, as ‘Goltzius’.
J.B. van Stolk, Haarlem.
with Dr N. Beets, Amsterdam, 1933-38.
A.E. Boer, The Hague, 1938.
Miss G. ten Cate de Vries, The Hague, and others; Paul Brandt, Amsterdam, 28 November 1961, lot 11, where (probably) purchased by a private collector, by descent until,
[From a Distinguished Private Collection]; Christie’s, Amsterdam, 7 May 1992, lot 110, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
H.W. Janson, 'The Putto with the Death's Head', Art Bulletin, XIX, 1937, pp. 438-439, pl. 30.
G.T. Faggin, La Pittura del Anversa nel Cinquecento, Florence, 1968, p. 46.
M.J. Friedlander, Early Netherlandish Painting, XII, London, 1975, p. 111, no. 216, pl. 116.
B. Wallen, Jan van Hemessen: An Antwerp Painter between Reform and Counter Reform, Ann Arbor, 1983, pp.114-115, 315, no. 44, fig. 135.
Special Notice
This lot is offered without reserve.
| Artist: | Jan Van Hemessen (1500 - 1566) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
| Genre: | Vanitas |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Jan Van Hemessen (1500 - 1566) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
| Genre: | Vanitas |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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