ID 1132840
Lot 70 | NETHERLANDISH SCHOOL, 16TH CENTURY
Estimate value
$ 60 000 – 80 000
The painter and the connoisseur, after Pieter Bruegel
with inscriptions ‘Jaques Sauery’ (lower center) and ‘Donnerstag’ (upper left)
black chalk, pen and brown ink
12 3⁄8 x 8 5⁄8 in. (31.5 x 22 cm)
Provenance
Possibly Strauss collection, Vienna (mentioned in Tolnay, op. cit., p. 86).
Eberhard Kornfeld, Bern; Klipstein and Kornfeld, Bern, 16 June 1960, lot 44 (as attributed to Bruegel).
with Zeitlin and Verbrugge, Los Angeles.
Private collection.
Literature
C. de Tolnay, Die Zeichnungen Pieter Bruegels, Zürich, 1952, probably p. 86, under no. 118.
L. Münz, Bruegel. The Drawings. Complete Edition, London, 1961, p. 224, under no. 126, no. A45, pl. 196.
M. Bisanz-Prakken in W. Koschatzky et al., Old Master Drawings from the Albertina, exhib. cat., Washington, National Gallery of Art, and New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1985, p. 208, under no. 25.
H. Mielke, Pieter Bruegel. Die Zeichnungen, Turnhout, 1996, p. 65, under no. 60, fig. 60a.
M. C. Plomp in Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Drawings and Prints, exhib. cat., Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001, p. 230, under no. 100.
M. Sellink, Bruegel. The Complete Paintings, Drawings and Prints, [Brussels], 2007, p. 221, under no. 145.
L. Nonner in Goltzius to Van Gogh. Drawings and Paintings from the P. and N. de Boer Foundation, exhib. cat., Paris, Fondation Custodia, Frits Lugt Collection, Paris, 2014-2015, p. 108, under no. 48.
E. Michel in Pieter Bruegel. Drawing the World, exhib. cat., Vienna, Albertina Museum, 2017, p. 23, p. 28, n. 50 (as possibly by Jacob Savery).
T. Vignau-Wilberg, Joris and Jacob Hoefnagel. Art and Science around 1600, Berlin, 2017, p. 502, under no. C 6 (as by Jacob Savery).
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