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Circle of Hendrik van Cleve III
bidding is closed
Description
- Hendrik van Cleve III
- the building of the tower of babel
- oil on panel
Provenance
Leinster;
Colonel J.F.N. Baxendale, London;
His sale, London, Christie's, 14 May 1926, lot 137;
Bought by Mr. Moore, London;
Dr Stefan Schminck, Frankfurt-am-Main (all the above as by Lucas van Valkenborch).
Colonel J.F.N. Baxendale, London;
His sale, London, Christie's, 14 May 1926, lot 137;
Bought by Mr. Moore, London;
Dr Stefan Schminck, Frankfurt-am-Main (all the above as by Lucas van Valkenborch).
Literature
H. Minkowski, Aus dem Nebel der Vergangenheit steigt der Turm zu Babel. Bilder aus 1000 Jahren, Berlin 1960, p. 71, LVV no. 8, reproduced fig. 236 (as attributed to Lucas van Valkenborch);
H. Minkowski, Turm zu Babel. Vermutungen über der Turm zu Babel, Freren 1991, p. 180, no. 232 reproduced (as attributed to Hendrick van Cleve III).
Catalogue Note
An almost identical version of better quality was sold New York, Christie's, 11 January 1979, lot 98.