The Calling of Simon and Andrew; and The Parable of the Sower

Details

Abel Grimmer (c. 1575-before 1620)
The Calling of Simon and Andrew; and The Parable of the Sower
the first indistinctly inscribed 'MARC.1.', the second indistinctly inscribed '.LVC.8.'
oil on panel, circular
10in. (25.5cm.) diameter
two (2)

Provenance

with Leonard Koetser, London (Dutch, Flemish and Italian Old Master Paintings, 25 April-31 May 1963, nos. 5a & 5b), from whom purchased on 4 June 1963.

Literature

B. Nicolson in Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions, The Burlington Magazine, CV, no. 722, May 1963, p. 227.
R. de Bertier de Sauvigny, Jacob et Abel Grimmer. Catalogue raisonné, Brussels, 1991, p. 268, no. 3 (the first subject incorrectly given as 'The Miraculous Draught of Fishes').

Lot Essay

These panels originally represented February and April in a set of the Twelve Months of the Year, to which Reine de Bertier de Sauvigny suggests, loc. cit., that panels showing May and June in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tournai (ibid., pp. 240-1, no. LXXXVIII) may also have belonged. Signed variants of both the present pictures, the first with different figures depicting the Parable of the Tribute Money, were sold at Sotheby's, New York, 9 June 1983, lots 130-1 (ibid., p. 213, no. XXXVI). Another signed version of the second picture is in the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle (ibid., p. 246, no. XCIX, fig. 125).

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