MATTHEUS VAN HELMONT | A LADY AND GENTLEMAN DISTRIBUTING ALMS TO THE POOR
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May 10, 02:40 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Property from the SØR Rusche Collection
MATTHEUS VAN HELMONT
Antwerp 1623 - 1679 Brussels
A LADY AND GENTLEMAN DISTRIBUTING ALMS TO THE POOR
signed and dated lower right: M V H[...]llemont / 16 F 50
oil on canvas
unframed: 86.9 x 116.8 cm.; 34¼ x 46 in.
framed: 108 x 138 cm.; 42½ x 54¼ in.
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With Pfefferle, Munich, 1869 (according to a red wax seal on the reverse);
Anonymous sale, Cologne, Lempertz, 25 November 2000, lot 1167, when acquired.
The SØR Rusche Collection has been exhibited extensively over the last two decades. Please click here for further information.
H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. 4, Historien und Allegorien, Münster/Hamburg/London 2010, pp. 178–82, cat. no. 27, reproduced in colour.
A pupil of David Teniers the Younger, Helmont was established as a member of the Antwerp Guild by 1646. He later moved to Brussels when he is recorded in a guild there in 1674. The existence of several Italianate market scenes suggest he may have travelled to Italy. He was mainly a genre painter, but also painted still lifes and contributed figures to landscapes by Jacques d'Arthois.