The Month of June: A landscape with Christ The Good Shepherd

Details

Abel Grimmer (Antwerp c. 1570-1618/9)
The Month of June: A landscape with Christ The Good Shepherd
inscribed 'IOHA.10' (lower centre)
oil on panel, circular
10¼ in. (26 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, with January (the preceding lot).

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

De Bertier de Sauvigny suggests, loc. cit., that this and the previous 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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