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Jan Breughel the Younger and Hendrik van Balen the Elder
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
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Description
- Jan Breughel the Younger and Hendrik van Balen the Elder
- The Virgin and Child with the Infant Saint John, surrounded by animals
- signed and dated lower right: H. V. BALEN. ET ... / 1626 .
- oil on oak panel
Provenance
Heinz Diekamp, Münster, until 1982;
With Frye & Sohn, Münster;
From whom acquired by a private collector, Germany;
Anonymous sale, London, Philips, 11 December 1990, lot 23.
With Frye & Sohn, Münster;
From whom acquired by a private collector, Germany;
Anonymous sale, London, Philips, 11 December 1990, lot 23.
Exhibited
Cologne, Kunsthalle, Weltkunst aus Privatbesitz, 18 May – 4 August 1968.
Literature
H. May, Weltkunst aus Privatbesitz, exhibition catalogue, Cologne 1968, cat. no. F1;
K. Ertz, Jan Breughel the Younger, Freren 1984, pp. 26–27, 66, 73, 80, 310–11, cat. no. 141, reproduced p. 311, fig. 141 and in colour, plate 26;
B. Werche, Hendrick van Balen (1575–1632), Turnhout 2004, vol. I, p. 153, no. A.50, reproduced vol. II, p. 348 (as whereabouts unknown).
K. Ertz, Jan Breughel the Younger, Freren 1984, pp. 26–27, 66, 73, 80, 310–11, cat. no. 141, reproduced p. 311, fig. 141 and in colour, plate 26;
B. Werche, Hendrick van Balen (1575–1632), Turnhout 2004, vol. I, p. 153, no. A.50, reproduced vol. II, p. 348 (as whereabouts unknown).
Catalogue Note
This and two other collaborations between Jan Brueghel the Younger and Hendrick van Balen explore the same theme of the Virgin and Child and attendant figures in a lush landscape setting, and are similar in style. One of these, in the Sammlung Hohenbuchau, is both on a panel of similar dimensions and opens through the wooded backdrop at the left into a distant landscape.1
There is a copy by an unknown follower in the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe.2 Another was in the Northwick Park sale.3
1. See Werche, under Literature, vol. I, p. 152, no. A 48, reproduced vol. II, p. 347.
2. See J. Lauts (ed.), Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe. Katalog Alter Meister, 1966, p. 38, cat. no. 846, reproduced p. 260.
3. London, Christie's, 28 May 1965, lot 61; see Werche, under Literature.