Circle of HENDRIK TERBRUGGHEN (1588-1629)

THE PROPERTY OF AN INSTITUTION

Details

Circle of HENDRIK TERBRUGGHEN (1588-1629)

A Lute Player carousing with a young Woman holding a Roemer

oil on canvas
42¾ x 33¾in. (108.5 x 85.7cm.)

Literature

J.S. Held, Alteration and Mutilation of Works of Art, South Atlantic Quarterly 62, 1963, 12
B. Nicolson, The International Caravaggesque Movement, 1979, p. 99, as one of three autograph versions
D. Nicolson, Caravaggism in Europe, ed. L. Vertova, 1979, I, p. 193, as one of three autograph versions

Exhibited

Ohio, Dayton Art Institute and Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, Hendrick Terbrugghen in America, Oct. 1965-Jan. 1966, no. 8 (catalogue entry by W. Stechow)

Lot Essay

In addition to the present painting Nicolson (loc. cit., 1979) lists two other autograph versions: a signed picture (105.5 x 86.4cm.) datable to circa 1624-6 (sold Christie's, London, Dec. 13, 1985, lot 104) and an unsigned version in the collection of Michael T. Shen (94 x 84cm.)