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WORKSHOP OF GIUSEPPE ARCIMBOLDO (MILAN 1527-1593)

Lot 4
02.12.2025 18:30UTC +00:00
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ID 1511774
Lot 4 | WORKSHOP OF GIUSEPPE ARCIMBOLDO (MILAN 1527-1593)
Estimate value
£ 800 000 – 1 200 000
WORKSHOP OF GIUSEPPE ARCIMBOLDO (MILAN 1527-1593)
The Four Seasons
Summer, with signature and date ‘GIVSEPPE / ARCIMBOLDO / 1573’ (centre, on the collar and shoulder)
oil on canvas
29 ½ x 24 3/8 in. (74.9 x 61.8 cm.)(4)
Winter, emblazoned with the crossed swords of Saxony, the electoral coat-of-arms (centre, on the shoulder)
a set of four




Provenance

(Probably) Elizabeth Stuart, Electress of the Palatinate and Queen of Bohemia, called the Winter Queen (1598-1622), consort of the Elector Palatine Frederick V, who may have taken the pictures with her when she fled Prague in 1620, subsequently returning to England on the accession of her nephew Charles II, and presumably given by Elizabeth to,
William, 1st Earl Craven (1608-1697), and by inheritance to,
Cornelia, Countess of Craven, née Martin (1877-1961), Hamstead Marshall, and by descent, until sold at the following,
Anonymous sale [The Property of a Gentleman]; Sotheby’s, London, 27 November 1963, lot 87, as ‘Giuseppe Arcimboldo’ (10,000 gns. to Reeve).
The Hon. Colin Tennant, later 3rd Baron Glenconner (1926-2010); Sotheby’s, London, 11 July 1973, lot 42, where acquired for £30,000 as 'Giuseppe Arcimboldo' by the following,
Sir Peter Moores (1932-2016), Parbold Hall; Sotheby’s, London, 3 July 2013, lot 32, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

P. Wescher, 'Review: I dipinti Ghiribizzosi di Giuseppe Arcimboldi by Benno Geiger; Arcimboldo et les Arcimboldesques by Legrand-Sluys', The Burlington Magazine, XCVIII, no. 634, January 1956, p. 29.
S. Alfons, 'Giuseppe Arcimboldo', Tidskrift för Konstvetenskap, XXXI, Malmo, 1957, p. 41.
F.C. Legrand and F. Sluys, Arcimboldo et les Arcimboldesques, Aalter, 1955, pp. 52-3, pl. 8, as ‘Arcimboldo’.
T. DaCosta Kaufmann, 'Arcimboldo au Louvre', La Revue du Louvre et des Musées de France, XXVII, 1977, pp. 337-38 and 340, Winter and Summer illustrated, as copies after the Louvre set.
The Arcimboldo Effect: Transformations of the Face from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century, exhibition catalogue, Milan, 1987, p. 109, all illustrated, as ‘Giuseppe Arcimboldo’.
S. Ferino-Pagden, ed., I Cinque Sensi nell'Arte: Immagini del Sentire, exhibition catalogue, Milan, 1996, p. 52.
V. Delieuvin in S. Ferino-Pagden, ed., Arcimboldo 1526-1593, exhibition catalogue, Milan, 2007, p. 134, under no. IV. 8, as versions of the Louvre set.
A. Glenconner, Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown, London, 2019, p. 144.
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