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Lot 5
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Carel Beschey Antwerp 1706 - 1770

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Description

  • Carel Beschey
  • a summer landscape with elegant travellers, a horse-drawn wagon, near a village with peasants dancing around a may-tree;a winter landscape with travellers and a horse-drawn cart, near a village with figures skating on a frozen river nearby
  • a pair, both signed, the former lower right, the latter lower centre: c. Bescheij
  • both oil on panel

Provenance

Anonymous sale, London, Phillips, 9 December 1986, lot 48 (only the winter landscape).

Literature

Advertisement in Weltkunst, 1 November 1986, p. 3467 (only the winter landscape).

Catalogue Note

The composition of the Summer landscape, is derived from a work by Josef van Bredael, signed and dated 1725, on copper, which was sold London, Christie's, 26 March 1971, lot 55 (see K. Ertz, Josef van Bredael 1688-1739, Lingen 2006, pp. 7, 18, 56 and 171, cat. no. E87, reproduced fig. 13).