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LUCAS VAN VALCKENBORCH I (LEUVEN OR MECHELEN C. 1535-1597 FRANKFURT AM MAIN)

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07.12.2023 14:30UTC +01:00
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Lot 7 | LUCAS VAN VALCKENBORCH I (LEUVEN OR MECHELEN C. 1535-1597 FRANKFURT AM MAIN)
LUCAS VAN VALCKENBORCH I (LEUVEN OR MECHELEN C. 1535-1597 FRANKFURT AM MAIN)

A landscape with a peasant wedding and a village festival, Antwerp beyond

dated and signed with monogram '1574 / L / VV' (lower left, on the bridge)

oil on panel

24 x 31 ¾ in. (61 x 80.8 cm.)





Provenance

Sir John Rushout, 2nd Baron Northwick (1770-1859), Thirlestaine House, Cheltenham; his sale (†), Phillips, on the premises, 19 August 1859 (=16th day), lot 1624, as ‘Brueghel’, where acquired for 21 gns. by,

Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), and by descent at Middle Hill and again at Thirlestaine House to the following,

Alan G. Fenwick; Christie's, London, 21 July 1950, lot 24, as ‘Pieter Brueghel the Younger’, where acquired for 1,100 gns. by the following,

with Eugene Slatter, London, where acquired for £2,100 on 15 February 1951 by the father of the present owner.



Literature

S.J. Gudlaugsson, 'Het Errera-schetsboek en Lucas van Valckenborch', Oud Holland, LXXIV, 1959, pp. 122, 125, 132, note 29, fig. 6, where incorrectly recorded as dated 1577.

B.L. Dunbar, 'Some Observations on the "Errera Sketchbook" in Brussels', Bulletin des Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, XXI, 1972, p. 58, note 13.

A. Wied, Lucas und Marten van Valckenborch (1535-1597 und 1534-1612): Das Gesamtwerk mitkritischem Oeuvrekatalog, Freren, 1990, pp. 17, 21 and 140, no. 21, illustrated.



Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, Flemish Art 1300-1700, Winter 1953-4, no. 397.
Artist:Lucas van Falkenborch (1535 - 1597)
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