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Property from the collection of Matthew Rutenberg, Sold Without Reserve
Sold Without Reserve | FRENCH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1636 | BROTHER ORONCE DE HONFLEUR (1596-1657)
Lot Closed
June 11, 02:41 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
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Property from the collection of Matthew Rutenberg, Sold Without Reserve
FRENCH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1636
BROTHER ORONCE DE HONFLEUR (1596-1657)
inscribed middle left: xp[ιστ]ε confix[us] sum cruci; inscribed upper right: F. Orontius Iuliobones/ 3.ii ord. Sti. Franc/Nativitatis suae an 40/ Religionis ver/23
oil on canvas, unlined, on original 17th century stretcher
canvas: 22⅛ by 19 in.; 56.2 by 48.3 cm.
framed: 27½ by 24 in.; 69.9 by 61 cm.
Anonymous sale, London, Bonham's, 8 December 2006, lot 23 (as School of Lorraine, circa 1620);
There acquired.
Brother Oronce de Honfleur (1596-1657) was a member of the Tertiary order of Franciscans in Normandy where he was the minister of Saint Ives. He wrote several religious treatises considered important enough to be included in the great Franciscan historian Luke Wadding’s list of important writers of the order (Scriptores Ordinis Minorem, 1650). He died in Paris in 1657 and was buried near the altar in the Franciscan church of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary.