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LEONAERT BRAMER (DELFT 1596-1674)

Lot 84
02.07.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 84 | LEONAERT BRAMER (DELFT 1596-1674)
Estimate value
£ 30 000 – 50 000
LEONAERT BRAMER (DELFT 1596-1674)
Musicians on a Terrace
signed 'LBramer.' ('LB' in ligature, lower centre, on the steps)
oil on canvas
68 ¾ x 85 ½ in. (174.6 x 217.1 cm.)




Provenance

Anonymous sale [Sammlung aus Französischem Besitz]; Rudolph Lepke, Berlin, 22 February 1910, lot 47.
Schoen collection, Berlin, by 1923.
Anonymous sale; A. Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 4 December 1928, lot 12.
Fritz Rothmann, Berlin.
Nathan Katz (1893-1949), The Hague and Dieren; his sale (†), Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 7 December 1950, lot 8.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 16 November 1960, lot 90b, where acquired by,
K.E. Maison.
with The Matthiesen Gallery, London, 1964 (according to RKD Research Files).
with Spink & Son, London, 1966.
W.W. Berry, by 1981.
Anonymous sale [The Property of a Gentleman]; Christie's, London, 8 July 1983, lot 31.
with Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York, by 1990.
with Eric Turquin, Paris, 2013, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

H. Wichmann, Leonaert Bramer: Sein Leben und Seine Kunst, Leipzig, 1923, p. 154, no. 299.
B. Nicolson, 'Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions', The Burlington Magazine, CVIII, June 1966, pp. 330 and 331, fig. 6.
C. Brown, Carel Fabritius: Complete Edition with a Catalogue Raisonné, Oxford, 1981, pp. 53 and 55, fig. 48.
B. Haak, The Golden Age: Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London, 1984, p. 325, fig. 692.
G. Jansen, in Holländische Malerei in neuem Licht: Hendrick ter Brugghen und seine Zeitgenossen, exhibition catalogue, Utrecht and Brunswick 1986-1987, p. 233, under no. 49.
'Advert - Richard Feigen', The Burlington Magazine, CXXXII, May 1990, p. xxxiv.
F.F. Hofrichter, ed., Leonaert Bramer 1596-1674. A Painter of the Night, Milwaukee, 1992, pp. 7, 10 and 74-76, no. 17, figs. 35 and 36.
J. ten Brink Goldsmith et. al., Leonaert Bramer 1596-1674, Ingenious Painter and Draughtsman in Rome and Delft, exhibition catalogue, Zwolle, 1994, pp. 64, 65, 176, 179-180 and p. 306, fig. 24, no. 51.
'Advert - Richard Feigen', The Burlington Magazine, CXXXIX, March 1997, p. x.
W. Liedtke et al., Vermeer and the Delft School, exhibition catalogue, New Haven and London, 2001, pp. 123, 232-234 and 262, no. 11, illustrated.
W. Liedtke, Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I, New Haven and London, 2007, p. 89, note 22.
S.D. Muller, Dutch Art: An Encyclopedia, New York and London, rev. ed., 2011, p. 49.



Exhibited

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Leonaert Bramer, 1596-1674: A Painter of the Night, 4 December 1992-28 February 1993, no. 17.
Delft, Stedelijk Museum het Prinsenhof, Leonaert Bramer, 1596-1674: Ingenious Painter and Draughtsman in Rome and Delft, 9 September-13 November 1994, no. 51.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vermeer and the Delft School, 8 March-27 May 2001, no. 11.
Bartlesville, The Price Tower Arts Center, Music Power: Great European Paintings on Musical Themes, 10 May-28 July 2002, no. 3.
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