Master Paintings Part I

Master Paintings Part I

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Property from the Hans and Marion König Collection

Pieter Brueghel the Younger

The Nest Robber

Live auction begins on:

February 6, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Hans and Marion König Collection

Pieter Brueghel the Younger

Brussels 1564 - 1637/1638 Antwerp

The Nest Robber


signed or inscribed lower right: P. BREVGHEL

oil on panel

panel: 14 by 19 in.; 38.0 by 48.5 cm

framed: 19 ⅝ by 24 ¾ in.; 50 by 62.8 cm

M. Huysens, Brussels;

His sale, London, Sotheby’s, 7 July 1976, lot 9;

Where acquired by Charles de Pauw, Wayre, Belgium;

By whose estate sold ("From the Collection of the late Charles De Pauw"), London, Sotheby’s, 9 April 1986, lot 8;

With Richard Green, London;

From whom acquired by Hans and Marion König, 1986.

K.Demus, in Katalog der Gemäldegalerie Wien. Flämische Malerei von van Eyck bis Pieter Bruegel d. Ä, K. Demus et al. (eds.), Vienna 1981, pp. 107, 109;

K. Ertz, in Pieter Breughel d.J. - Jan Brueghel d.Ä., Flämische Malerei um 1600, Tradition und Fortschritt, exhibition catalogue, Essen and Vienna 1997/1998, p. 352;

K. Ertz, in Pieter Breughel d.J.-Jan Brueghel, d.Ä, Een Vlaamse schildersfamilie rond 1600 (Une famille de peintres flamands vers 1600), exhibition catalogue, Antwerp 1998, p. 334, reproduced figure 116b;

K. Ertz, Pieter Brueghel der Jüngere (1564-1637/38). Die Gemälde mit kritischem Oeuvrekatalog, Lingen 1988/2000, p. 206, cat. no. E102, reproduced p. 563, fig. 462.

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brueghel, une dynastie de peintres, 18 September - 19 November 1980, no. 86.