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Property from the Schminck Collection – Centuries of Collecting Arts & Objects

Erasmus Quellinus

The Virgin and Child with an orb, a landscape through a window beyond | Madonna mit Kind und Sphärenkugel, mit Aussicht auf eine Landschaft

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October 18, 01:49 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 EUR

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Property from the Schminck Collection – Centuries of Collecting Arts & Objects


Erasmus Quellinus (II)

Antwerp 1607–1678

The Virgin and Child with an orb, a landscape through a window beyond


oil on canvas

unframed: 103.5 x 78.1 cm.; 40¾ x 30¾ in.

framed: 133 x 107 cm.; 52⅜ x 42⅛ in.


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Erasmus Quellinus der Jüngere

Madonna mit Kind und Sphärenkugel, mit Aussicht auf eine Landschaft

Huybrechts collection, Antwerp, 1939 (according to De Bruyn 1991);

Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Gentleman'), London, Christie's, 11 December 1992, lot 53.

J.-P. De Bruyn, 'Erasmus II Quellinus (1607–1678): addenda en corrigenda II', in Jaarboek Koninklijk Museum voor Schone kunsten, Antwerp 1991, p. 169, cat. no. IX, reproduced;

J.-P. De Bruyn, 'Erasmus II Quellinus (1607–1678): addenda en corrigenda III', in Jaarboek Koninklijk Museum voor Schone kunsten, 1994, pp. 190–91, cat. no. 1, reproduced.

We are grateful to Dr. Jean-Pierre De Bruyn for his assistance in the cataloguing of the present lot, which he dates to about 1635-1640. Quellinus's composition was engraved by Schelte Adamsz. Bolswert1 and can be closely compared to a collaborative work by Quellinus and Daniël Seghers today in the Musée Communal, Verviers.2


1 British Museum, London, inv. no. R,2.110.

2 J.-P. de Bruyn, Erasmus II Quellinus (1607–1678): de schilderijen met catalogue raisonné,

Freren 1988, p. 213, cat. no. 156.