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Property from the Collection of Dr Hinrich Bischoff, Sold Without Reserve

Circle of Gillis Mostaert the Elder

Lot with his daughters, Sodom and Gomorrah burning in the distance

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December 4, 01:51 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

Lot Details

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Property from the Collection of Dr Hinrich Bischoff, Sold Without Reserve


Circle of Gillis Mostaert the Elder

Lot with his daughters, Sodom and Gomorrah burning in the distance


oil on copper

unframed: 18.3 x 27.1 cm.; 7¼ x 10⅝ in.

framed: 29 x 38 cm.; 11⅜ x 15 in.

George V, King of Hanover (1819–1878);

Anonymous sale, Vienna, Dorotheum, 14 March 1978, lot 99 (as Gillis Mostaert);

Anonymous sale, Vienna, Dorotheum, 16–22 March 1982, lot 417 (as Gillis Mostaert);

Dr Hinrich Bischoff (1936–2005), by 1986;

Thence by inheritance.

 

Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, on loan until March 2025.

Probably G. Jäncke, Verzeichniss der von Seiner Majestät dem Könige angekauften Hausmann'schen Gemälde-Sammlung in Hannover, Hanover 1857, p. 31, no. 301 (as P. v. Breughel);

C. Heße und M. Schlagenhaufer, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Köln. Vollständiges Verzeichnis der Gemäldesammlung, Cologne 1986, pp. 64 and 205, reproduced fig. 364 (as Gillis Mostaert);

E. Mai, Flämische Malerei von 1550 bis 1650 (Wallraf-Richartz Museum Köln – Bildhefte zur Sammlung, 1), Cologne 1987, p. 17, reproduced fig. 1;

C. Stukenbrock, 'Vlaamse landscapsschilderkunst ten tijde van Gillis Mostaert', in Gillis Mostaert (15281598). Een tijdgenoot van Bruegel, E. Mai (ed.), Munich 2005, pp. 89–89, reproduced in colour fig. 13 (as circle of Gillis Mostaert);

C. Göttler, 'Die Katastrophe in der Galerie: Sodom und Gomorra in der niederländischen Malerei', in Naturkatastrophen: Deutungsmuster vom Altertum bis in die Neuzeit, A. Höfele and B. Kellner (eds), Paderborn 2023, pp. 25152, reproduced in colour fig. 11.5 (as attributed to Gillis Mostaert).

This painting has royal provenance: it was in the collection of George V, King of Hanover (1819–1878), and bears his royal cypher on the reverse.