LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on oak panel

Measurements:

42.13 in. (107.00 cm.) (height) by 29.06 in. (73.80 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Amsterdam, Kunsthandel P. de Boer, De helsche en de fluwelen Brueghel en hun invloed op de kunst in de Nederlanden, 10 February – 26 March 1934, no. 81; Brussels, Exposition d'Art Ancien, Noël dans l'art ancien, 18 December 1941 – 6 January 1942, no. 42;; Tokyo, Tobu Museum of Art, The World of Bruegel. The Coppée Collection and Eleven International Museums, 29 March – 25 June 1995, no. B42 (as by Jan Brueghel the Younger).;

Literature:

J. Combe, Brueghel de Velours, Paris 1942, reproduced fig. 8; Count d'Arschot, Secours d'hiver, December 1942, reproduced in colour (according to Hairs, 1985, see below);;; M. L. Hairs, Les peintres flamands de fleurs au XVIIe siècle, Paris & Brussels 1955, p. 73;; K. Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Ältere (1568–1625). Die Gemalde mit kritischem Oeuvre Katalog, Cologne 1979, pp. 316, 318, 616 and reproduced fig. 389 (as by Jan Brueghel the Younger);; K. Ertz, Jan Brueghel the Younger (1601–1678). The Paintings with Oeuvre Catalogue, Freren 1984, p. 471, cat. no. 303;; M. L. Hairs, Les peintres flamands de fleurs au XVIIe siècle, Brussels 1985, pp. 110 and 465;; S. Leclercq et al., La Collection Coppée, Liège 1991, pp. 85–87, reproduced;; M. Wilmotte, in the catalogue of the exhibition The World of Bruegel. The Coppée Collection and Eleven International Museums, Tokyo 1995, pp. 140–43, no. B35, reproduced;; B. Werche, Hendrick van Balen (1575–1632), vol. I, p. 150, no. A 42, reproduced vol. II, p. 345.

Provenance:

Madame Karel Ooms van Eersel; Her sale, Antwerp, van Herck, 15 – 20 May 1922, lot 138;; Acquired at the above sale by Baron Coppée;; Thence by descent.