Sale 6068
London
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16 December 1998
Price realised
GBP 117,000
Estimate
Abraham Govaerts (1589-1626 Antwerp) and Ambrosius Francken (Herenthals 1544-1618 Antwerp) Peasants making music and disporting in a wooded river landscape oil on panel 19½ x 25.3/8 in. (49.5 x 64.4 cm.)
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We are grateful to Dr. Ursula Härting for the confirming the attribution, on the basis of photographs. She will include the picture in her forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the oeuvre of Govaerts, to be published at Brepols in 1999.
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