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Follower of Jheronimus Bosch, late 16th or 17th century

Merrymakers in a bagpipe

Auction Closed

January 27, 09:38 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Follower of Jheronimus Bosch, late 16th or 17th century

Merrymakers in a bagpipe


oil on panel

panel: 35¾ by 27½ in.; 90.8 by 70 cm.

framed: 42⅞ by 34 in.; 108.9 by 86.4 cm.

With Dr. Paul Mersch, Paris, 1927 (according to an annotation in the M.J. Friedländer archive);
Anonymous sale ("Sammlung des Herrn la Borderie und anderer Besitz"), Lucerne, Fischer, 19 July 1927, lot 58 (as Peeter Huys, with an opinion from Max Friedländer);
Anonymous sale, Brussels, J. Fiévez, 8 April 1930, lot 70 (as Pierre Huys, with an opinion from Max Friedländer);
With J. Meier, Bern, October 1941 (according an an inscription by Max Friedländer on the reverse of a photo in his archive);
Possibly With Schneeberger, Bern, 1941;
Private collection, France, until 2022.
J. de Coo, Museum Mayer van den Bergh: catalogus 1 : schilderijen, verluchte handschriften, tekeningen, Antwerp 1978, p. 28;
D. Bax, Hieronymus Bosch: his picture-writing deciphered, Rotterdam 1979, p. 258, fig. 105 (as attributed to Pieter Huys);
G. Unverfehrt, Hieronymus Bosch: die Rezeption seiner Kunst im frühen 16. Jahrhundert, Berlin 1980, p. 286, cat. no. 146a/e (as attributed to Huys by Friedländer).