Lot 238
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Bartholomeus Breenbergh

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Bartholomeus Breenbergh
  • Wooded landscape with Latona and the Lycian Peasants 
  • signed and indistinctly dated lower left: BBreenberch f. / 163(?)0 (BB in ligature)
  • oil on canvas

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Zomer, 7 May 1709, lot 66 (as Faabel daar de Boeren in Kikvorschen veranderen, van B.Breenberg);
B. van Riemsdijk, Amsterdam, before 1942;
Thence by descent in the family;
With Richard Feigen, New York.

Exhibited

Chicago, Richard L. Feigen & Co., Six Centuries of Myth and Legend, 26 February - 30 April 1988, no. 11;
New York, Richard Feigen, Bartholomeus Breenbergh, 20 November - 20 December 1991, no. 6.

Literature

M. G. Roethlisberger, Bartholomeus Breenbergh: The Paintings, Berlin 1981, pp. 54-55, cat. no. 116, reproduced;
M.G. Roethlisberger, Bartholomeus Breenbergh, exhibition catalogue, New York 1991, pp. 20-21, cat. no. 6, reproduced.

Condition

The following condition report has been provided by Simon Parkes of Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc. 502 East 74th St. New York, NY 212-734-3920, simonparkes@msn.com, an independent restorer who is not an employee of Sotheby's. This work has not been recently restored but looks well nonetheless. The canvas has an old lining which is still good. The paint layer seems to be in very good state. The details and figures in the foreground are unabraded, and one can see that most of the dark colors are in good condition. Only slight thinness has been restored in the distance and in the sky. There are also a few isolated dots of retouching in the darkest colors of the foreground. The condition is very good overall.
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