Old Master Paintings, Part One

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Lot 50
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Attributed to Abraham Brueghel , and Guillaume Courtois, called Guglielmo Cortese, Il Borgognone, Saint-Hippolyte 1628 - 1679 Rome Antwerp 1631 - 1697 Naples

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Description

  • Abraham Brueghel
  • A young boy arranging flowers in an urn with peaches, pears, grapes, a pomegranate and a melon on a stone steps in a garden
  • oil on canvas

Provenance

With The Cooling Galleries, 92 New Bond Street, London.

Catalogue Note

Brueghel and Courtois collaborated on still-life compositions in Rome during the 1660s.  Comparable paintings by the two artists are in the Staatliche Museen, Dresden, and in the Museum of Fine Art at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island (see D. Graf & E. Schleier, "Guglielmo Cortese and Abraham Brueghel", in Pantheon, vol. XXXI, 1973, pp. 46-57).  Another collaborative painting by Brueghel and Cortese was sold at the Mauerbach Benefit sale, Vienna, Christie's, 29 October 1996, lot 130.

Sold in 1947 with a certificate by Ralph Warner (according to a label on the reverse).