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Lot 1204
  • 1204

Gillis Coignet the Elder Antwerp 1542 - 1599 Hamburg

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Description

  • Gillis Coignet the Elder
  • the wedding at cana

  • signed and dated lower centre on the table cloth: G. Coingnet feii/ et inve, 1591

  • oil on canvas

Provenance

Aldersbach Abbey until 1803, the property of a nobleman.

Catalogue Note

This is one of only sixteen signed works known by Coignet (see A. Meskens, Familia Universalis: Coignet. Een familie tussen wetenschap en kunst, Antwerp 1998, pp. 173-4). Coignet was both active as a painter and a scientist.