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Property from the Schminck Collection – Centuries of Collecting Arts & Objects
Follower of Lucas van Valckenborch | Nachfolger von Lucas van Valckenborch
A wooded landscape with an elegant company picnicking and a fortress beyond | Waldlandschaft mit einer eleganten Gesellschaft beim Picknick und einer Burg im Hintergrund
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October 18, 01:48 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 EUR
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Property from the Schminck Collection – Centuries of Collecting Arts & Objects
Follower of Lucas van Valckenborch
A wooded landscape with an elegant company picnicking in the foreground, a fortress beyond
oil on oak panel
unframed: 37.1 x 38.9 cm.; 14⅝ x 15⅜ in.
framed: 53.3 x 54.6 cm.; 21 by 21½ in.
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Nachfolger von Lucas van Valckenborch
Waldlandschaft mit einer eleganten Gesellschaft beim Picknick und einer Burg im Hintergrund
Private collection, Belgium.
The elegant figures enjoying a picnic in the foreground bear affinities with those in the works of Lucas van Valckenborch, while the layout of the wooded landscape finds parallels in a drawing attributed to Gillis van Coninxloo in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.1
1 Inv. no. 2279/1863, pen and brown ink on paper, 206 x 311 mm. See image in RKD archive no. 281947.