Property from a European Private Collection
Sebastiaan Vrancx
An Allegory of Winter: A winter landscape with townsfolk, masked gentlemen in horse-drawn sledges and skaters on a canal outside the city walls of Antwerp
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December 4, 01:51 PM GMT
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Property from a European Private Collection
Sebastiaan Vrancx
Antwerp 1573–1647
An Allegory of Winter: A winter landscape with townsfolk, masked gentlemen in horse-drawn sledges and skaters on a canal outside the city walls of Antwerp
signed with monogram on the back of the horse, lower centre: SV
oil on panel
unframed: 72 x 119.4 cm.; 23⅜ x 47 in.
framed: 92.3 x 139.8 cm.; 36⅜ x 55 in.
With Eugene Slatter, London, by 1955;
Anonymous sale, The Hague, Van Marle en Bignell, 25 September 1956, lot 163;
Anonymous sale, Hamburg, Hans Stahl, 6 September 1986;
Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Christie’s, 17–18 November 2015, lot 19, for €73,500;
Where acquired.
The Illustrated London News, vol. 226, 23 April 1955, reproduced (as Sebastian Vrancx).
This Allegory of Winter would have belonged to a set of the four seasons, compositions of which were immensely popular and were repeated in many versions by Vrancx and his workshop. The subject can be traced back to the calendar illustrations of a Medieval Book of Hours, and its popularity continued during the 16th and 17th centuries, attested by the many different designs invented by Vrancx alone.
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