Joos van Craesbeeck Neerlinter circa 1605 - 1654/61 Brussels

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 EUR

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Description

Joos van Craesbeeck
A merry company around a fireplace near a city gate, with a soldier cutting tabacco and a woman tapping wine to the foreground
signed lower left: CB
oil on panel

Provenance

Possible sale Gent, J. Alpers, 14 May 1811, lot. 7;
Jonathan Newington Hughes, Esq., Winchester, by 1848;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's , 14 April 1848, nr. 81;
With Durlacher, London;
Major W.F. Lucas Sidley;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 21 April 1950;
Nicolas Argenti, London, by 1951;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 24 April 1998, lot 47;
With Jacques Leegenhoek, Paris, by 1999;
With P. de Boer, Amsterdam, by 1999;
Offered, Vienna, Dorotheum, 27 March 2003, nr. 217.

Literature

K. de Clippel, Joos van Craesbeeck (1605/06-ca. 1660), Een Brabants Genreschilder, Turnhout 2006, vol. I, p. 249, cat. no. A106, reproduced vol. II, p. 526, fig. 106.

Catalogue Note

The present painting forms part of a group of genre paintings, of which the example in the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, can be regarded as the referential composition. The same type of pastel colouring and the loose way of painting suggest a dating of around 1635. (see Literature: p. 250)