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Attributed to John Hamilton
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description
- John Hamilton
- A Tigress with her cubs threatened by a crocodile
- oil on canvas
Provenance
By tradition in the collection of the Princely Family of Liechtenstein;
Given to Baron Salomon Mayer von Rothschild, 1822, and hung in Schilldersdorf, Moravia, before 1843;
Thence by descent to Baron Alphonse Mayer von Rothschild, Vienna (inv. no. AR918) (listed in the Rothschild 1938 inventory in Vienna as after Rubens);
Confiscated from the above in 1938 by the Nazi authorities and restituted to the Rothschild family, 1947;
With N. Coburg;
Baron Jungenfeld;
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby’s, 6 December 1989, lot 8;
There acquired by Carlton Hobbs;
From whom purchased by the present collector.
Given to Baron Salomon Mayer von Rothschild, 1822, and hung in Schilldersdorf, Moravia, before 1843;
Thence by descent to Baron Alphonse Mayer von Rothschild, Vienna (inv. no. AR918) (listed in the Rothschild 1938 inventory in Vienna as after Rubens);
Confiscated from the above in 1938 by the Nazi authorities and restituted to the Rothschild family, 1947;
With N. Coburg;
Baron Jungenfeld;
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby’s, 6 December 1989, lot 8;
There acquired by Carlton Hobbs;
From whom purchased by the present collector.
Literature
F. Kunth, Die Rothschild'schen: Gemäldesammlungen in Wien, Vienna 2006, pp. 212-213 (as after Rubens).
Catalogue Note
See note to previous lot.