GUILLAUME COURTOIS* (1628-1679) and ABRAHAM BRUEGHEL* (c.1631-1690)

Details

GUILLAUME COURTOIS* (1628-1679) and ABRAHAM BRUEGHEL* (c.1631-1690)

Ceres, attended by Putti with Flowers and Fruit, at a Fountain

oil on canvas
67 x 101in. (177 x 255cm.)

Provenance

Trimnell collection, Avening Court, Tetbury, Gloucestershire; sale,
Oct. 3-5, 1972, lot 375
with B. Cohen and Sons, London
Anon. sale, Christie's, London, Dec. 8, 1972, lot 83, as Giordano and Brueghel (#4,400 to Fine Arts)
J. Paul Getty, Sutton Place, Guildford, Surrey, until 1978, when bequeathed to the museum

Literature

D. Graf and E. Schleier, Guglielmo Cortese und Abraham Brueghel, Pantheon, XXXI, Jan.-March 1973, no. 1, p. 56, illustrated, p. 55, fig. 11

Exhibited

Lot Essay

There are four preparatory drawings for the figure of Ceres and one for the putto holding the basket of fruit in the Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf (Graf and Schleier, op. cit, p. 56, figs. 12-15 and p. 49, fig. 4)