Joos van Craesbeeck Neerlinter circa 1605 - 1654/61 Brussels

Estimate

18,000 - 25,000 EUR

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Description

Joos van Craesbeeck
a couple at a table drinking and cutting tobacco
signed with initials lower left: IVCB
oil on panel

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Paris, Lery de Senneville, 5-11 November 1780, lot 117;
Anonymous sale, Paris, Lery de Senneville, 26 April 1784, lot 65;
Professor Wilhelm von Bode, Berlin;
Professor Dr. V. Bruns, Berlin, 1939.

Exhibited

Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Gemälde Alter Meister aus Berliner Besitz, 1939, cat. no. 82.

Literature

K. de Clippel, Joos van Craesbeeck (1605/06-ca. 1660), Een Brabants Genreschilder, Turnhout 2006, vol. I, p. 156, cat. no. A39, reproduced vol. II, p. 475, fig. 39.

Catalogue Note

The present painting is very similar in composition to a painting with a Couple cutting tabacco, sold London, Sotheby's, 10 December 2001, lot 431, now in a private Belgian collection. Furthermore, the sitters are also very similar to those in The studio of a painter and The Marriage contract (see under Literature, p. 162, nr. A45 and p. 165, nr. A46). De Clippel dates the mentioned paintings around 1640, consequently, the present painting can be dated to the early 1640s.