ID 887491
Lot 14 | PAUL BRIL (BREDA 1553/4-1626 ROME)
Estimate value
$ 400 000 – 600 000
Allegory of the months of January/February, with a view of the Piazza del Popolo, Rome, during Carnival; and Allegory of the months of November/December, with woodcutters in a forest
the first signed with the artist’s device, a pair of spectacles, on the shop sign (upper right)
oil on panel
30 1/2 x 41 in. (77.5 x 104.1 cm.)
(2)a pair
Provenance
Acquired in Rome by William Smith in 1626 on behalf of,
Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel (1585-1646), by inheritance to his wife,
Alethea Howard, Countess of Arundel (1585-1654), recorded in an inventory made after her death, in 1655, by descent to her son,
William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford (1614-1680), Stafford House, London, by descent in the family to ,
Edward Howard, 9th Duke of Norfolk (1686-1777), Norfolk House, London, by descent in the family to,
Sir Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk (1908-1975); his sale, Christie’s, London, 11 February 1938, part of lots 88 and 89, as Abel Grimmer (220 and 175 gns., respectively).
with Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, until 1943.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 15 January 1993, lot 26, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
‘Inventory of Pictures, Drawings and Objects of Vertu Collected by Thomas and Alethea, Earl and Countess of Arundel’, ms. Amsterdam, 1655, no. 130; see M. Hervey, The Life, Correspondence and Collections of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, Cambridge, 1921, p. 479.
‘A Catalogue of Pictures, Prints…being part of the old Arundel Collection…belonging to the late Earl of Stafford at Stafford House, Westminster’, ms., 1720.
‘Catalogue of All and Singular Pictures found in Norfolk House, St. James Sq., at the Decease of Edwd, the last Duke of Norfolk’, ms. London, 11 November 1777, nos. B. 1 and B. 16, as Joos de Momper and Jan Brueghel I.
Connoisseur, CIII, January 1939, p. xi, illustrated (November/December).
P.F.J.J. Reelick, 'Documentatie: Jodocus de Momper of Paulus Bril', Oud Holland, LXIII, 1948, p. 120, where erroneously described as a copy of the painting in Amsterdam.
(Possibly) D. Howarth, Lord Arundel and His Circle, New Haven, 1985, pp. 56, 231, as part of the ’21 paesi fiamenghi di pittori moderni’ shipped from Rome to London in 1626.
S. Melikia, ‘Old Masters Brush off the Recession’, in The Herald Tribune, 23-24 January 1993, p. 7.
Special Notice
This lot is offered without reserve.
| Artist: | Paul Bril (1554 - 1626) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
| Genre: | Allegory, Cityscape |
| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Paul Bril (1554 - 1626) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
| Genre: | Allegory, Cityscape |
| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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