Lot Essay
We are grateful to Professor Wayne Franits for confirming the attribution to Seghers on the basis of photographs. However, Dr. Anne Delvingt has expressed reservations about the attribution.
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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
Attributed to Gerard Seghers (Antwerp 1591-1651)
A musical company
Details
Attributed to Gerard Seghers (Antwerp 1591-1651)
A musical company
oil on canvas
38 5/8 x 54 in. (98.2 x 137 cm.)
A musical company
oil on canvas
38 5/8 x 54 in. (98.2 x 137 cm.)
Provenance
Private collection, Paris.
Anonymous sale; Charpentier, Paris, 6 June 1958, as ‘Gerrit van Honthorst’.
Julius H. Weitzner; Christie’s, London, 29 June 1962, lot 145, where acquired by,
Anonymous sale [Property from a German Private Collection]; Sotheby’s, London, 10 July 2008, lot 149.
Anonymous sale; Charpentier, Paris, 6 June 1958, as ‘Gerrit van Honthorst’.
Julius H. Weitzner; Christie’s, London, 29 June 1962, lot 145, where acquired by,
Anonymous sale [Property from a German Private Collection]; Sotheby’s, London, 10 July 2008, lot 149.
Literature
Ringling Bulletin, I, no. 1, 1960.
B. Nicholson, The International Caravaggesque Movement, Oxford, 1979, p. 89, fig. 82, as ‘St. Cecilia’.
J. Foucart, ‘Quelques oeuvres de Gerard Seghers’, Essays in Northern European Art Presented to Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann on his Sixtieth Birthday, Doornspijk, 1983, p. 91.
D. Bieneck, Gerard Seghers, Lingen, 1992, pp. 135-6, no. A6, illustrated.
B. Nicholson, The International Caravaggesque Movement, Oxford, 1979, p. 89, fig. 82, as ‘St. Cecilia’.
J. Foucart, ‘Quelques oeuvres de Gerard Seghers’, Essays in Northern European Art Presented to Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann on his Sixtieth Birthday, Doornspijk, 1983, p. 91.
D. Bieneck, Gerard Seghers, Lingen, 1992, pp. 135-6, no. A6, illustrated.
Exhibited
Florida, Sarasota, John and Mable Ringling Museum, Figures at a Table, 1960, no. 13 (lent by Julius H. Weitzner, New York).
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