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Elegance & Wonder: The Collection of Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III

Jan van Kessel the Elder

Allegory of War

Auction Closed

May 22, 04:37 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

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Elegance & Wonder: The Collection of Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III

Jan van Kessel the Elder

Antwerp 1626–1679

Allegory of War


signed lower right: I.V. KESSEL. FECIT.

oil on copper

copper: 10 ⅞ by 12 ⅞ in.; 27.6 by 32.7 cm

framed: 16 ⅜ by 19 ½ in.; 41.6 by 49.5 cm

Anonymous sale, London, Christie’s 23 April 1982, lot 34;

Anonymous sale, New York, Christie's, 26 January 2001, lot 12;

With Johnny van Haeften, Ltd., London;

From whom acquired by Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III.

K. Ertz and C. Nitze-Ertz, Die Maler Jan van Kessel. Jan van Kessel der Ältere 1626–1679, Jan van Kessel der Jüngere 1654–1708, Jan van Kessel der 'Andere' ca. 1620 – ca. 1621, Lingen 2012, p. 385, cat. no. 703, reproduced. 

Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Elegance and Wonder: Masterpieces of European Art from the Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III Collection, 20 March 2023 - 30 January 2025.