LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on oak panel, single plank

Measurements:

21.89 in. (55.60 cm.) (height) by 37.13 in. (94.30 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Essen, Villa Hügel, Kulturstiftung Ruhr, and Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum,. Pieter Breughel der Jungëre (1564-1637/38) and Jan Brueghel der Ältere (1568-1625) , 16 August - 16 November 1997 and 9 December 1997 - 14 April 1998, no. 81

Literature:

A list of pictures belonging to the Hon. John Spencer, scheduled for mortgage , 1742 (as 'Diana and her Nymphs returned from hunting by Van Bele Gurcino and Brugel');. G. Knapton, Catalogue of the Pictures at Althorpe and Wimbledon belonging to the late Hon ble M r Spencer , 1746, no. 280 (as hanging in the picture Clossett; 'Diana and her Attendants by Van Balen with Dogs and dead Game Brughell'); . A Catalogue of the Pictures of Althorp taken in the year 1750 , 1750 (as hanging in the Picture Closet; 'A Landschape over D o of Diana & Her Attendants by Van Calen, The Dogs and Game by Brughel. The Landscape…'); . H. Walpole, Journals of visits to country seats, etc. , 1760 (as 'Diana and Nymphs. Rottenhammer'); in P. Toynbee, 'Horace Walpole's Journals of visits to country seats, &c.', in The Walpole Society , vol. XVI, 1928, p. 31; . Catalogue of the Pictures at Althorp made in November 1802 , 1802 (as 'Diana & her Nymphs. Fig by Van Balen, dogs by Brueghel'); . T.F. Dibdin, Aedes Althorpianae.. , London 1822, pp. 15-16 (as hanging in the Drawing Room); . Catalogue of the pictures at Althorp House , 1851, p. 9, no. 49 (as 'Van Balen and Brueghel'); . K. Zoege van Manteuffel, 'Eine verschollene Studienfolge Jan Brueghels der Ältere und ihre Schicksale', in Berliner Museen , vol. XLIV, 1923, p. 11, reproduced p. 9, fig. 11; . G. Glück, Rubens, Van Dyck und ihr Kreis, Vienna 1933, p. 356; . K.J. Garlick, 'A catalogue of pictures at Althorp', in The Walpole Society , vol. XLV, 1976, pp. 9-10, cat. no. 69; . K. Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Ältere (1568-1625). Die Gemälde mit kritischem Œuvrekatalog , Cologne 1979, pp. 405, 536 (note 650) and 621, cat. no. 376, reproduced fig. 481 (the animals and game attributed to Frans Snyders); . K.J. Müllenmeister, 'Diana als Jagdgöttin', in Weltkunst, vol. 53, 1983, pp. 394-96, reproduced in colour p. 396, figs 4 and 5; . A. Werche, in K. Ertz (ed.), Pieter Breughel der Jungëre (1564-1637/38) and Jan Brueghel der Ältere (1568-1625) , exh. cat., Lingen and Vienna 1997, pp. 275-77, cat. no. 81, reproduced (Vienna ed.); . P.C. Sutton, Dutch & Flemish Paintings. The Collection of Willem Baron van Dedem, London 2002, pp. 60-67, cat. no. 9, reproduced in colour; . B. Werche, Hendrick van Balen (1575-1632): ein Antwerpener Kabinettbildmaler der Rubenszeit, Turnhout 2004, vol. I, p. 167, cat. no. A 85; vol. II, reproduced p. 374; . K. Ertz, with C. Nitze-Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Ältere (1568-1625), Lingen 2008-10, vol. II, p. 718, cat. no. 351, reproduced in colour p. 719

Provenance:

Possibly inherited by Jan Brueghel the Younger (1601-78) from his father and recorded in his journal: '48. Een landschap stuc van mon Père, van Bael de nimfkens heel curieus gedaen';. . The Hon. John Spencer (1708-46), by 1742; . Thence by family descent at Althorp (their red wax seals on the reverse) to Albert Edward John, 7th Earl Spencer (1892-1975), and in the collection at the time of his death: thus probably to John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer (1924-92); . With Kurt Müllenmeister, Solingen, from whom acquired by Baron van Dedem on 12 December 1982