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Artist |
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Pieter Brueghel the Younger |
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Title |
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A Flemish village in winter with the Massacre of the Innocents
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Medium |
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oil on panel |
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Size |
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48 x 66.9 in. / 122 x 170 cm. |
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Description |
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oil on oak panel |
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Sale Of |
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Sotheby's London: Wednesday, July 8, 2009
[Lot 13]
Old Master Paintings Evening Sale
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Estimate |
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Sold For |
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*
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Provenance |
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Émile Grisar, Antwerp, by 1935;
Anonymous sale, Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 11 October 1948, lot 39, for 550,000 Belgian Francs;
Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Gentleman'), London, Sotheby's, 21 March 1973, lot 82, for £90,000 to "Paul";
Possibly Emsens Collection, Grimbergen, and bought back by Mme Emsens in his sale (according to Ertz);
Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby's Mak van Waay, 15 November 1976, lot 13, withdrawn (included in the catalogue but not consigned);
Sold to the present owner in or shortly after 1976
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Exhibition |
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Antwerp, Antwerpse Propagandaweken. Tentoonstelling van Kunstwerken uit Antwerpsche Verzamelingen, 20 April - 19 May 1935, no. 21, lent by E. Grisar
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Literature |
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Possibly G. Glück, Breugels Gemälde, Vienna 1932 (4th ed., 1937), p. 56, under no. 26 (according to Ertz);
G. Marlier, Pierre Brueghel le Jeune, Brussels 1969, p. 73, no. 3;
Advertisement in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 115, no. 840, March 1973, pp. xli, lxix;
L. Campbell, The Early Flemish Pictures in the Collection of her Majesty the Queen, London 1985, p. 16, no. 5;
K. Ertz, Pieter Brueghel der Jüngere, vol. I, Lingen 1988/2000, pp. 350-51, cat. no. E290
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