Follower of Hendrik van Balen ,circa 1650

估價

25,000 - 35,000 EUR

招標截止

描述

Hendrik van Balen
bathsheba receiving a letter announcing the death of her husband uriah's death, in an architectural capriccio with a sculpted fountain and a distant landscape
oil on alabaster laid down on slate

來源

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 2 December 1983, lot 72 (as Follower of Hans Rottenhammer), when bought by
Daan Cevat, London/Guernsey,
thence by descent to the present owner.

拍品資料及來源

This beguiling picture has been linked with Hendrik van Balen, Jacques Stella (who used similar supports) and Hans Rottenhammer, but has hitherto defied any convincing attribution. The distant wooded landscape with its cool, luminous colouring, perhaps by another hand, appears to be Flemish, and may be by a landscapist of the Brussels School.