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    Old Master Pictures

    London, South Kensington

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    27 October 1999

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    • After Gerard Seghers
    Lot 357

    After Gerard Seghers

    The Denial of Saint Peter

    Price realised

    GBP 8,625

    Estimate

    GBP 1,000 - GBP 1,500

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    After Gerard Seghers
    The Denial of Saint Peter
    oil on unlined canvas
    59 x 86 in. (149.8 x 219.7 cm.)

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    Lot Essay

    The prototype is in the collection of the Earl of Mansfield, Scone Palace, Perth. More than ten copies are cited by Nicolson, mostly after the engraving in reverse by Schelte a Bolswert (see B. Nicolson, aravaggism in Europe, I, Oxford, 1979, p.174, under no.1423).

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