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WORKSHOP OF JOOS DE MOMPER | Landscape with gypsies in a cave

UK: Greenford Park WarehouseRestricted Species

Lot Closed

September 19, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the SØR Rusche Collection

WORKSHOP OF JOOS DE MOMPER

Antwerp 1564 - 1635

LANDSCAPE WITH GYPSIES IN A CAVE

oil on oak panel, the reverse with the brand of the City of Antwerp panel makers' guild

unframed: 47 x 67.5 cm.; 18½ x 26⅝ in.

framed: 61.5 x 81.5 cm.; 24¼ x 32 in.

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In possession of the French state, after 1945, and recorded in the Louvre archive with a note 'recovered from Germany';

In the present collection since the 1970s.

K. Ertz, Josse de Momper der Jüngere (1564–1635). Die Gemälde mit kritischem Œuvrekatalog, Freren 1986, p. 653, cat. no. A207, reproduced (under Rejected Attributions);

H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. 2, Genre, Münster/Hamburg/London 1996, pp. 172-75, cat. no. 41, reproduced in colour (as Joos de Momper and Jan Brueghel the Elder);

P.H. Janssen et al, Panorama op de wereld. Het landschap van Bosch tot Rubens, exh. cat., Zwolle 2001, pp. 156-58, cat. no. 62, reproduced (as Joos de Momper and Jan Brueghel the Elder);

W. Pijbes, M. Aarts, M. J. Bok et al, At Home in the Golden Age, exhib. cat., Zwolle 2008, p. 71, cat. no. 52, reproduced in colour.

This work relates to another composition by erstwhile collaborators Joos de Momper and Jan Brueghel the Elder, datable to between 1600 and 1610, which last appeared on the market at Christie's, London, 19 December 1930.¹

1 See Ertz 1986, p. 594, cat. no. 471, reproduced p. 593.