Property from a Frankfurt Private Collection
Follower of Sebastian Vrancx
The battle between Bréauté and Lekkerbeetje on the Vughterhe
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Property from a Frankfurt Private Collection
Follower of Sebastian Vrancx
The battle between Bréauté and Lekkerbeetje on the Vughterheide
inscribed with inventory number lower right: 33.; and stencil with name and an old inventory number on the reverse: Gaunö / nr. 156
oil on canvas
unframed: 90.5 x 137.8 cm.; 35⅝ x 54¼ in.
framed: 116 x 163 cm.; 45⅝ x 64⅛ in.
Baron Holger Reedtz-Thott (1881–1941), Gavnö Castle, Denmark, by 1914;
Thence by inheritance to Baron Axel Gustav Tage Reedtz-Thott (1920–1973), Gavnö Castle, Denmark, by 1941;
By whose Executors sold, London, Christie's, 9 July 1976, lot 130 (as Gerrit van Santen);
With Xaver Scheidwimmer Gallery, Munich, by 1977;
Dr Stefan Schminck, Frankfurt, by 1979.
K. Madsen and O. Andrup, Fortegnelse over to hundrede af baroniet Gaunøs malerier af aeldre malere samt over dets portraetsamling, Copenhagen 1914, p. 44, no. 156 (as Gerrit van Santen);
K. Madsen, ‘Malerisamling paa Gavnø’, in Kunstmuseets Åarskrift, vol. 4, Copenhagen 1917, p. 48;
The battle of Leckerbeetje took place on 5 February 1600 between 22 Brabantine cavalrymen loyal to Albert VII, Archduke of Austria, and 22 French cavalrymen serving in the army of the Dutch Republic. The event was commemorated in songs, poems, paintings and prints, with this painting likely inspired by an engraving by Joannes van Doetechum the Younger, after Sebastiaen Vrancx.1
1 Engraving and etching, 74 x 98 cm. no. FMH 1121.