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SOLD BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITION FUND (Lots 40, 71 and 91)

Flemish School, circa 1550

Spring; and Autumn

Details

Flemish School, circa 1550
Spring; and Autumn
oil on panel
29½ in. (75 cm.) diam.
two (2)

Provenance

Baron von Cramer, Kleft, Germany.
Anon. Sale, Frederic Muller, Amsterdam, 27 June 1905.
Robert Badenop, by whom donated in 1957 to
The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio.

Literature

R. de Bertier de Sauvigny, Jacob et Abel Grimmer, 1991, p. 91, no. 1, the first illustrated p. 92, fig. 37, as Jacob Grimmer and Martin van Cleve.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Sale room notice

The attribution should read Flemish School, circa 1600.

Lot Essay

These two panels were described by Walther Bernt in 1950 as 'Tableaux en très bonnes conditions, oeuvres tardives du maître anversois Jacob Grimmer. Les personnages très bons semblent d'un peintre comme J. Brueghel II, Sebastiaen Vrancx ou Martin van Cleve.' The attribution to Grimmer was accepted by Reine de Bertier de Sauvigny in her 1991 monograph on Jacob and Abel Grimmer; she suggested that the figures in Spring were by Martin van Cleve whilst those in Autumn were probably by him.

The paintings were originally part of a set of four, of which the other two, Summer and Winter were respectively sold in these Rooms, 8 December 1972, lot 73, and with R. Finck, Brussels, December 1967.

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