Hendrick van Steenwyck II (c.1580-c.1649) and Jan Brueghel I (1568-1625)

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

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Hendrick van Steenwyck II (c.1580-c.1649) and Jan Brueghel I (1568-1625)

The Nave of a Gothic Church, looking East, with Mass being said at an Altar against one of the Piers

with inscription 'H. VAN STEENWYK EN BREVGEL'

on panel transferred to canvas (in 1944 according to an inscription on the reverse)

29 3/8 x 41 3/8in. (74.5 x 105cm.)

Provenance

Monsieur de la Bouexière
with Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun (1748-1813), Paris, before 1792
W. J. M. Bosch van Oud-Amelisweerd, Heer van Oud-Amelisweerd (1829-1899)
His daughter, who married A. T. J. Schade van Westrum
Mr. and Mrs. Smits-Schade van Westrum
Mr. and Mrs. Smits van Oyen-Regout, from whom purchased by the present owner in 1966

Literature

J.-B.-P. Le Brun, Galerie des Peintres Flamands, Hollandais et Allemands, I, 1792, pl.63

Engraved

Noach van der Meer, for Le Brun, loc. cit.

Lot Essay

Similar works by Steenwyck with figures by Jan Brueghel I are in
the National Gallery, the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan, the
Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, and the Szepmüveszeti Muzeum, Budapest (see K. Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Ältere, 1979, pp.508-12)

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