Lot Essay
The original by Rubens is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, datable to 1615-20.
VARIOUS PROPERTIES
Studio of Frans Snyders (1579-1657) and Erasmus Quellinus (1607-1678)
Details
Studio of Frans Snyders (1579-1657) and Erasmus Quellinus (1607-1678)
A Painting of the Infant Christ with Saint John the Baptist, after Sir Peter Paul Rubens, in a Tabernacle Frame festooned with Swags of Fruit and Nuts, with a Cockatoo, a Parrot, Chaffinches and other Birds
oil on canvas
51 1/8 x 81½in. (129.9 x 207cm.)
A Painting of the Infant Christ with Saint John the Baptist, after Sir Peter Paul Rubens, in a Tabernacle Frame festooned with Swags of Fruit and Nuts, with a Cockatoo, a Parrot, Chaffinches and other Birds
oil on canvas
51 1/8 x 81½in. (129.9 x 207cm.)
Provenance
Said to have come from the collection of Prince Gagarin, St. Petersburg and purchased from the dealer A.R. Krutjakoff, St. Petersburg, in 1908 for 25,000 gold roubles by Agathon Fabergé, son of Carl Fabergé, Court Jeweller to the Czar.