Balthazar Beschey

Summer: peasants on horseback surrounded by others harvesting wheat, windmills beyond; and Winter: skaters and townsfolk on a frozen river, a village beyond

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Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Esteemed European Collection

Balthazar Beschey

Antwerp 1708–1776

Summer: peasants on horseback surrounded by others harvesting wheat, windmills beyond; and Winter: skaters and townsfolk on a frozen river, a village beyond

a pair, both oil on panel

each unframed: 36.3 x 47.3 cm.; 14¼ x 18⅝ in.

each framed: 52.2 x 63.1 cm.; 20½ x 24⅞ in.

(2)

Anonymous sale, Paris, Galliera, 7 December 1976, lots 30 and 31 (as attributed to Theobald Michau);

With De Jonckheere, Brussels, by 1977;

De Coster collection, Brussels;

Private collection;

With De Jonckheere, Paris;

Where acquired by the present owners in 2000.