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Property from the Schuybroek Collection
Paul Bril
A river landscape with a fort
Lot Closed
July 8, 01:26 PM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Schuybroek Collection
Paul Bril
Antwerp circa 1554 - 1626 Rome
A river landscape with a fort
signed on the inn sign centre left, with a pair of spectacles (bril in Dutch)
oil on copper
unframed: 19 x 28.5 cm.; 7¾x 11¼in.
framed: 27.5 x 36.5 cm.; 10⅞ x 14⅜ in.
Dr Hans Wetzlar, Amsterdam, by 1963;
His posthumous sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby’s, 9 June 1977, lot 12, when acquired.
A presumably larger version on canvas, with differences limited to the figures, is in the collection of the Fondazione Banca di Roma.1 Cappelletti dates it to the second decade of the 17th century.
1 F. Cappelletti, Paul Bril, Rome 2005, p. 278, cat. no. 111, reproduced (no measurements are given).