ID 887545
Lot 8 | WILLEM VAN NIJMEGEN (ZALTBOMMEL 1635/6-1698 HAARLEM)
Estimate value
$ 300 000 – 500 000
Trompe l’oeil with engravings and a printed text pasted to a pine board
signed and dated ‘Willem van Nijmegen / fecit et pinxit / Ao. 1688. / 12-2.’ (center right on the left print); and signed 'Willem van Nymegen fecit et pinxit.' (lower center on the printed sheet)
oil on canvas, unframed
35 7/8 x 44 7/8 in. (91 x 114 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 3 July 1997, lot 44, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
A. Tummers, ‘The Painter Versus his Critics: Willem van Nijmegen’s Defense of his Art’, in Aemulatio: imitation, emulation and invention in Netherlandish art from 1500 to 1800: Essays in honor of Eric Jan Sluijter, A. Boschloo, et al., eds., pp. 429-434, fig. 1.
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.
| Artist: | Willem van Nijmegen ( 1636-1698 ) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas, Trompe-l’œil |
| Genre: | Mythological painting, Portrait |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Europe, The Netherlands |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Willem van Nijmegen ( 1636-1698 ) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas, Trompe-l’œil |
| Genre: | Mythological painting, Portrait |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Europe, The Netherlands |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Address of auction |
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