A wooded landscape with travellers entering a town

Details

Abel Grimmer (Antwerp circa 1570-before 1619)
A wooded landscape with travellers entering a town
signed and dated 'GRIMER 160?' (lower right)
oil on panel
27.5 x 42.4 cm.
with a red wax seal '...Helsingin Tullik...' on the reverse

Provenance

P. Delaroff, St. Petersburg.
Helsinfors; sale, 1925
Anonymous sale; Bukowski, Stockholm, 25 September 1929, lot 23.
with P. de Boer, Amsterdam, 1930-1.
Collection Stenman, Stockholm, 1933.
H. van Vijk, Rotterdam; sale, 1934, lot 14.
Anonymous sale; F. Muller, Amsterdam, June 1948.
Private collection, Oakland.

Literature

R. de Bertier de Sauvigny, Jacob et Abel Grimmer. Catalogue Raisonné, Brussels, 1991, p. 226, no. LIV.

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Kunsthandel de Boer, Joost de Momper en tijdgenoten, 1930-1, no. 81.
Amsterdam, Kunsthandel de Boer, Tentoonstelling van de Jongere Brueghels, 1934, no. 123.

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Lot Essay

Like his father Jacob Grimmer, Abel is mostly known for his small paintings of country scenes with simplified figures and landscapes. With this type of subject, the Grimmers carried on a tradition started in the 16th century with Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Often their pictures originally were part of a series representing the Twelve Months or the Four Seasons. This was probably also the case with the present picture, which most likely represents Autumn. The painting resembles a signed and dated work by Abel Grimmer from 1606 in a private collection in Belgium (see R. de Bertier de Sauvigny, op. cit., p. 225, no. LI).

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