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Studio of Sebastiaan Vrancx Antwerp 1573 - 1647
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description
- Sebastiaan Vrancx
- A crowd watching an entertaining monkey;A salesman addressing a crowd;A woman escaping the clutch of three men as a seated gentleman looks on
- a set of three, all oil on copper, all stamped on the reverse with the coppersmith's mark: GK or CK
Provenance
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 8 July 1981, lots 106 and 107 (as Hendrik van Steenwijck the Elder).
Condition
"The following condition report has been provided by Henry Gentle, an independent restorer who is not an employee of Sotheby's.
The copper panels are thin but in good condition. There are some areas of fragile paint on each panel that requires consolidating and some areas of restoration mostly covering thinnesses within the paint layer, particularly noticeable in 'the salesman addressing a crowd'. Each panel has a layer of slightly discoloured varnish."
"This lot is offered for sale subject to Sotheby's Conditions of Business, which are available on request and printed in Sotheby's sale catalogues. The independent reports contained in this document are provided for prospective bidders' information only and without warranty by Sotheby's or the Seller."
"This lot is offered for sale subject to Sotheby's Conditions of Business, which are available on request and printed in Sotheby's sale catalogues. The independent reports contained in this document are provided for prospective bidders' information only and without warranty by Sotheby's or the Seller."
Catalogue Note
A tentative attribution to Hieronymus Francken the Elder (1540-1610) has been suggested for these paintings. These three copper plates can be compared stylistically to The barber's shop, attributed to Francken, formerly in Antwerp, Hartfeld Collection (see F.C. Legrand, Les peintres flamands de genre au XVIIe siècle, Paris-Brussels, 1963, p. 66, cat. no. 28).
The coppersmith using the monogram GK or CK has thus far not been identified. Three of the Monogrammist GK's plates were used by Hendrik van Steenwijck the Elder, from which we can conclude that he was in business before 1603, the date of Steenwijck's death.
The coppersmith using the monogram GK or CK has thus far not been identified. Three of the Monogrammist GK's plates were used by Hendrik van Steenwijck the Elder, from which we can conclude that he was in business before 1603, the date of Steenwijck's death.