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Lot 174
  • 174

After Abraham Bloemaert

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description

  • Abraham Bloemaert
  • The Expulsion of Adam and eve
  • oil on canvas, in a carved and gilt wood frame

Provenance

With the Heim Gallery, London, 1966;
M. Cripps (later Baron Parmoor), 1967;
His anonymous sale ("The Property of a Nobleman"), London, Sotheby's, 8 July 1987, lot 71, for £10,000 to Esperia Arts.

Exhibited

London, Heim Gallery, Autumn Exhibition, 3 November - 21 December 1966, cat. no. 16, as by Juan Antonio Frias y Escalante with the attribution due to José Guidol and Javier de Salas;
Barnard Castle, Bowes Museum, Four Centuries of Spanish Painitng, 1967, no. 57, lent by M. Cripps, as by Juan Antonio Frias y Escalante.

Literature

M.G. Roethlisberger, Abraham Bloemaert and his Sons, Ghent 1993, vol. I, p. 123, cat. no. 75 1, with incorrect measurements, as "very likely Spanish".

Catalogue Note

The composition is derived from Jan Sanredam's engraving after a print by Abraham Bloemart (see M.G. Roethlisberger, Abraham Bloemaert and his Sons, Ghent 1993, vol. I, pp. 120, 123, reproduced vol. II, fig. 130).