ID 1086639
Lot 8 | PIETER BRUEGHEL THE YOUNGER (BRUSSELS 1564-1638 ANTWERP)
Estimate value
£ 1 000 000 – 1 500 000
Return from the Kermesse
oil on panel
15 3⁄8 x 22 ½ in. (39 x 57.1 cm.)
Provenance
with Galerie de Heuvel, Brussels, where acquired by,
Baron Evence III Coppée (1882-1945), Brussels, and displayed in the Coppée mansion on the Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt, Brussels, and by descent; Coppée collection, Phillips, London, 8 December 1992, lot 53, where acquired by the following,
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 16 December 1998, lot 12.
with Galerie de Jonckheere, Paris, where acquired by the present owner in 2002.
Literature
G. Marlier, Pierre Brueghel le Jeune, Brussels, 1969, pp. 394-6, no. 1, fig. 244.
S. Leclercq, La Collection Coppée, Brussels, 1991, pp. 56-7, illustrated.
K. Ertz, Pieter Brueghel der Jüngere (1564-1637⁄38): Die Gemälde mit kritischem Oeuvrekatalog, II, Lingen, 1998⁄2000, p. 916, no. E1299, illustrated.
Exhibited
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruegel: Une dynastie de Peintres, 18 September-18 November 1980, no. 99.
| Artist: | Pieter Bruegel II (1564 - 1638) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
| Art style: | Old Masters |
| Genre: | Cityscape, Genre art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Pieter Bruegel II (1564 - 1638) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
| Art style: | Old Masters |
| Genre: | Cityscape, Genre art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Address of auction |
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