Master Paintings & Sculpture Part I
Master Paintings & Sculpture Part I
Property from a European Private Collection
Marten van Cleve the Elder
Children's Games
Auction Closed
January 28, 04:44 PM GMT
Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a European Private Collection
Marten van Cleve the Elder
Antwerp circa 1527 - before 24 November 1581
Children's Games
oil on oak panel
29 ¾ by 42 ⅜ in.; 75.4 by 107.5 cm.
Karl Eugen, Herzog von Wurttemberg (1728–93), Schloss Ludwigsburg, 1767 inventory, fol. 108, no. 2 (as a pendant to the ‘Entry of Christ into Jerusalem’, attributed to the Brunswick Monogrammist, also acquired by the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart);
Thence by descent, possibly at Stuttgart following the abandonment of Ludwigsburg in 1775, and in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, probably from 1843, and certainly by 1902, inv. no. 1085;
Whence deaccessioned in 1958;
Heinz Kisters, Kreuzlingen, by 1969;
Sale, Toulouse, Marc Labarbe, 12 December 2019;
Private collection, Belgium.
Thence by descent, possibly at Stuttgart following the abandonment of Ludwigsburg in 1775, and in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, probably from 1843, and certainly by 1902, inv. no. 1085;
Whence deaccessioned in 1958;
Heinz Kisters, Kreuzlingen, by 1969;
Sale, Toulouse, Marc Labarbe, 12 December 2019;
Private collection, Belgium.
W. Spemann, Verzeichnis der Gemäldesammlung im Kgl. Museum der Bildenden Künste zu Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1903, p. 41, cat. no. 130 (as Style of Pieter Brueghel the Younger);
T. von Frimmel, 'Reisenotizen aus der Stuttgarter Galerie', in Blätter für Gemäldekunde, Vienna 1907, III, p. 116, cat. no. 130 (as Pieter Baltens);
K. Lange-Tübingen, Verzeichnis der Gemäldesammlung im Kgl. Museum der Bildenden Künste zu Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1907, p. 97, cat. no. 130 (as Style of Pieter Brueghel the Younger), and p. 287 (with Theodor von Frimmel’s opinion, as Pieter Balten);
Verzeichnis der Gemäldesammlung im Kgl. Museum der Bildenden Künste zu Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1917, p. 14, cat. no. 130 (as Style of Pieter Brueghel the Younger);
Katalog der Staatsgalerie zu Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1931, p. 24 (as Pieter Brueghel the Younger);
Katalog der Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1957, pp. 28-29 (as Pieter Baltens?);
G.T. Faggin, ‘De genre-schilder Marten van Cleef’, in Oud Holland, vol. 80, 1965, reproduced fig. 12 (as after Marten van Cleve);
G. Marlier, Pierre Brueghel le Jeune, Brussels 1969, p. 350, reproduced p. 351, fig. 216 (as Marten van Cleve);
Museumskataloge Graz, 1994, p. 101 (according to Ertz 2014);
S.J. Kostyshyn, A reintroduction of the life and work of Peeter Baltens alias Custodis of Antwerp (1527–1584), doctoral diss., Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 1994, cat. no. 112-A, reproduced fig. 158 (as Marten van Cleve or Workshop);
A. Orrock, 'Homo ludens: Pieter Bruegel’s Children’s Games and the Humanist Educators', in Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art, vol. 4, no. 2 (Summer 2012), p. 30, note 64;
K. Ertz, Marten van Cleve 1524–1581. Kritischer Katalog der Gemälde und Zeichnungen, Lingen 2014, pp. 43 and 169, cat. no. 74 (with incorrect image reproduced; as Marten van Cleve).
T. von Frimmel, 'Reisenotizen aus der Stuttgarter Galerie', in Blätter für Gemäldekunde, Vienna 1907, III, p. 116, cat. no. 130 (as Pieter Baltens);
K. Lange-Tübingen, Verzeichnis der Gemäldesammlung im Kgl. Museum der Bildenden Künste zu Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1907, p. 97, cat. no. 130 (as Style of Pieter Brueghel the Younger), and p. 287 (with Theodor von Frimmel’s opinion, as Pieter Balten);
Verzeichnis der Gemäldesammlung im Kgl. Museum der Bildenden Künste zu Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1917, p. 14, cat. no. 130 (as Style of Pieter Brueghel the Younger);
Katalog der Staatsgalerie zu Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1931, p. 24 (as Pieter Brueghel the Younger);
Katalog der Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1957, pp. 28-29 (as Pieter Baltens?);
G.T. Faggin, ‘De genre-schilder Marten van Cleef’, in Oud Holland, vol. 80, 1965, reproduced fig. 12 (as after Marten van Cleve);
G. Marlier, Pierre Brueghel le Jeune, Brussels 1969, p. 350, reproduced p. 351, fig. 216 (as Marten van Cleve);
Museumskataloge Graz, 1994, p. 101 (according to Ertz 2014);
S.J. Kostyshyn, A reintroduction of the life and work of Peeter Baltens alias Custodis of Antwerp (1527–1584), doctoral diss., Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 1994, cat. no. 112-A, reproduced fig. 158 (as Marten van Cleve or Workshop);
A. Orrock, 'Homo ludens: Pieter Bruegel’s Children’s Games and the Humanist Educators', in Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art, vol. 4, no. 2 (Summer 2012), p. 30, note 64;
K. Ertz, Marten van Cleve 1524–1581. Kritischer Katalog der Gemälde und Zeichnungen, Lingen 2014, pp. 43 and 169, cat. no. 74 (with incorrect image reproduced; as Marten van Cleve).