Louis de Caullery* (active 1593-died 1621/2)

Details

Louis de Caullery* (active 1593-died 1621/2)

A Town Square in Winter with elegant Figures observing a Procession of Soldiers and merrymakers

oil on panel
39¼ x 52 5/8in. (99.6 x 133.6cm.)

Provenance

Hans F. Wriedt, Westport, CT, by whom given in 1956 to
The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford.

Literature

Wadsworth Atheneum Bulletin, 3rd ser., no. 2, 1957, p. 29 as School of Brueghel, 16th century.
Wadsworth Atheneum, Wadsworth Atheneum Paintings. Catalogue I. The Netherlands and German-Speaking Countries. 15th to 19th Centuries, cat. by E.H. Begemann et al., 1978, pp. 123-4, no. 23, pl. 32 as workshop of Louis de Caullery.

Lot Essay

Caullery treated this subject on a number of occasions always varying the details within the composition. Datable to the first decade of the 17th Century, another version of the present work was in the Marshall Collection, exhibited at Sotheby's, London, Dec. 31, 1973-Jan. 8, 1974.