The Month of January: A winter landscape with The Adoration of the Magi

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Abel Grimmer (Antwerp c. 1570-1618/9)
The Month of January: A winter landscape with The Adoration of the Magi
signed and dated 'ABEL GRIMMER FECIT 1611' (upper right)
oil on panel, circular
10 1/8 in. (25.8 cm.) diam.

Provenance

with Galerie J.O. Leegenhoek, Paris.

Literature

R. de Bertier de Sauvigny, Jacob et Abel Grimmer, Belgium, 1991, p. 235, no. LXVII, pl. 75, with June (the following lot).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

De Bertier de Sauvigny, loc. cit., suggests that this and the following lot may have been a part of the set of which The Month of April: The Parable of the Sower is in the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, Durham (ibid., p. 246, no. XCIX), and six others are known, in various locations (ibid., pp. 268-71, nos. 1-5 and 8).

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