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Property from the Collection formed by the late Mr and Mrs Barge-Dreesmann

Pieter Brueghel the Younger

A peasant offering a cock to his companion; a fisherman offering a fish to his companion 《農夫向女伴獻公雞;漁夫向女伴獻魚》

Auction Closed

December 8, 08:20 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection formed by the late Mr and Mrs Barge-Dreesmann 

Pieter Brueghel the Younger

Brussels 1564 - 1637/8 Antwerp

A peasant offering a cock to his companion; a fisherman offering a fish to his companion


the former possibly illegibly signed

a pair, both oil on oak panel, circular

each: diameter 19.5 cm.; 7⅝ in.


白殊-德利斯曼伉儷故藏

小彼得・布呂赫爾

1564年生於布魯塞爾,1637/8年卒於安特衛普

《農夫向女伴獻公雞;漁夫向女伴獻魚》


款識:農夫一作可能附有難以辨認的藝術家簽名

一對,皆為油彩圓形橡木畫板

各:直徑 19.5 公分;7 ⅝ 英寸

Private collection;

Anonymous sale, (‘The Property of a Gentleman’), London, Christie's, 27 November 1970, lot 61, for 6,500 guineas to B. Coulter (as Maarten van Cleef [sic]);

With Galerie Robert Finck, Brussels, 1971; 

With De Jonckheere, Paris;

From whom acquired on 16 March 1998 by Mr and Mrs Barge-Dreesmann, Brasschaat;

Thence by descent to the present owners.

K. Ertz, Pieter Brueghel der Jüngere (1564–1637/38): Die Gemälde mit kritischem Œuvrekatalog, vol. I, Lingen 1988/2000, pp. 177–78, 183–84, 217 and 219, nos E 160 and E 170, reproduced figs 152 and 164 (the former as a good workshop variant; the latter incorrectly listed under no. 170 as fig. 136). 
Brussels, Galerie Robert Finck, Exposition de Tableaux de Maîtres du XVe au XIXe siècle, 3–19 December 1971, nos 13 and 14, reproduced in colour.