Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction
Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction
Herri met de Bles and Sir Peter Paul Rubens
The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist in an extensive landscape with travellers
Auction Closed
July 3, 06:49 PM GMT
Estimate
600,000 - 800,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Herri met de Bles
Bouvines circa 1510–after 1550 Antwerp (?)
and
Sir Peter Paul Rubens
Siegen 1577–1640 Antwerp
The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist in an extensive landscape with travellers
signed with the artist's device of an owl, sitting on the cage of one of the travellers in the lower right corner
oil on oak panel, marouflaged, the reverse bearing a fragment incised with the initials: FH1
unframed: 56.9 x 73.3 cm.; 22⅜ x 28⅞ in.
framed: 85.9 x 101 cm.; 33⅞ x 39¾ in.
Presumably Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), Antwerp;
Probably listed in the inventory drawn up after his death in 1640 as no. 190 (see Literature);
Anonymous sale, Basel, Artcurial, 22 March 2023, lot 2 (as Herri met de Bles and follower of Lambert Lombard);
Private collection, Switzerland.
Probably J. van Meurs, Spécification des peintures trouvées à la maison mortuaire du feu messire Pierre Paul Rubens, chevalier, &c, MS, Paris 1640, n. p., no. 190 (‘Vne nostre Dame dans vn paysage, de Henry Bles’);
J.F.M. Michel, ‘Catalogue des Peintures & Raretés, qui se vendront à Anvers au mois de Mai 1641. dans la Maison mortuaire de Massire P.P. Rubens Chevalier & Seigneur de Steen’, in Histoire de la vie de P.P. Rubens, Chevalier & Seigneur de Steen, Brussels 1771, p. 282, no. 190 (‘La Vierge dans un Paysage, par H. Bles’);
Probably J. van Meurs, ‘Spécification des peintures trouvées à la maison mortuaire du feu messire Pierre Paul Rubens, chevalier, &c’, in J.M. Muller, Rubens: The Artist as Collector, Princeton 1989, p. 128, no. 190;
Probably J. van Meurs, ‘Spécification des peintures trouvées à la maison mortuaire du feu messire Pierre Paul Rubens, chevalier, &c’, in A House of Art, Rubens as Collector, K. Lohse Belkin and F. Healy (eds), exh. cat., Antwerp 2004, p. 331, no. 190.
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