David Vinckboons (1576-c.1632)

The Property of the late DR. M. H. G. A. THOLEN, The Netherlands

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David Vinckboons (1576-c.1632)

An Alpine Valley with Gypsies telling Travellers' Fortunes and a Monk carousing with a peasant Woman in the Foreground, a castle on a rock beyond

signed (?) with monogram 'DVB' (below the bridge)
on panel
17 1/8 x 32in. (43.5 x 81.2cm.)

Provenance

Acquired by the late owner c.1930

Literature

K. Goossens, Nog meer over David Vinckboons, Jaarboek van het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten te Antwerpen, 1966, pp. 74-6 and 104 and fig. 5; reprinted in K. Goossens, David Vinckboons, Soest, 1977

Lot Essay

Goossens, loc. cit., describes the present picture as the only true mountain landscape by the artist then known; he dates it c.1604, pointing out that the composition is loosely related to that of a drawing of The Three Maries at the Tomb in the British Museum which he dates c.1601 (op. cit., 1977, p. 32, fig. 16)

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