The Vision of Aso O. Tavitian | The Online Sale
The Vision of Aso O. Tavitian | The Online Sale
Melchior Brassauw
Two Women and a Man Making Music in an Interior
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6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Melchior Brassauw
Mechelen 1709 - 1757 Antwerp
Two Women and a Man Making Music in an Interior
indistinctly signed lower right on book: Melch[...] / Brassauw
oil on panel
panel: 14 ½ x 12 ¼ in.; 36.8 x 31.1 cm
framed: 22 ½ x 19 ¾ in.; 57.6 x 50.2 cm
Anonymous sale, Christie's London, 8 May 1982, lot 34;
Anonymous sale, Christie's London, 29 October 1999, lot 64;
Where acquired by Aso O. Tavitian.
The Antwerp-based Melchior Brassauw established his career as a portraitist and genre painter. The present work is an excellent example of Brassauw’s oeuvre, as the artist has captured the intimate interior of a Flemish household. The three musicians look out toward the viewer, who has seemingly interrupted their performance.