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FRANS FRANCKEN THE YOUNGER AND STUDIO | The Wedding Feast at Cana
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
bidding is closed
Description
- Frans Francken II le Jeune
- The Wedding Feast at Cana
- signed lower left: Do ffrANCK iNf.
- oil on copper
- 55.7 x 72.7 cm
Provenance
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's South Kensington, 5 July 2000, lot 9, when acquired.
Exhibited
Rotterdam, Kunsthal, Jezus in de Gouden Eeuw, 9 September 2000 – 7 January 2001, unnumbered;
Nuremberg, Auf AEG, Gute Kunst? Wollen!, 19 September – 17 October 2015, no. 101;
Wuppertal, Von der Heydt-Museum, Freiheit, Macht und Pracht – Niederländische Kunst im 17. Jahrhundert, 21 June – 23 August 2009;
Nuremberg, Auf AEG, Gute Kunst? Wollen!, 19 September – 17 October 2015;
Apolda, Kunsthaus Apolda, 10 January – 28 March 2016; Telgte, Westfälisches Museum, 10 June – 4 September 2016, Vom Allmächtigen zum Leibhaftigen: Religiöse Motive in der SØR Rusche Sammlung Oelde/Berlin, unnumbered.
Nuremberg, Auf AEG, Gute Kunst? Wollen!, 19 September – 17 October 2015, no. 101;
Wuppertal, Von der Heydt-Museum, Freiheit, Macht und Pracht – Niederländische Kunst im 17. Jahrhundert, 21 June – 23 August 2009;
Nuremberg, Auf AEG, Gute Kunst? Wollen!, 19 September – 17 October 2015;
Apolda, Kunsthaus Apolda, 10 January – 28 March 2016; Telgte, Westfälisches Museum, 10 June – 4 September 2016, Vom Allmächtigen zum Leibhaftigen: Religiöse Motive in der SØR Rusche Sammlung Oelde/Berlin, unnumbered.
Literature
A. Blankert et al., Jezus in de Gouden Eeuw, exh. cat., Zwolle and Rotterdam 2000, p. 87, reproduced;
W. Pijbes, M. Aarts, M.J. Bok et al, At Home in the Golden Age, exhib. cat., Zwolle 2008, p. 102, cat. no. 101, reproduced;
H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. 4, Historien und Allegorien, Münster/Hamburg/London 2010, pp. 144–48, cat. no. 21, reproduced in colour (as Francken the Younger).
W. Pijbes, M. Aarts, M.J. Bok et al, At Home in the Golden Age, exhib. cat., Zwolle 2008, p. 102, cat. no. 101, reproduced;
H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. 4, Historien und Allegorien, Münster/Hamburg/London 2010, pp. 144–48, cat. no. 21, reproduced in colour (as Francken the Younger).
Catalogue Note
When it was last offered on the market, the attribution of this painting was endorsed by Dr Ursula Harting following first-hand inspection, who noted that the first arrangement of the picture is by Frans Francken the Younger, with later work by his studio.