Property from the Hans and♉ Marion König Collection
The Nest Robber
Auction Closed
February 6, 04:38 PM GMT
Estimate
1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property fromꦰ 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 acquiredꦓ by Charles de Pauw, Wavre, Belgium;
By whose estate sold ("From the Collecꦗtion of the late Charles De Pauw"), London, Sotheby’s, 9 April 198💦6, lot 8;
With Richard Green, London;
From whom acquired by Hans and Marion K♒önig, 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 ౠcatalogue, Essen and Vienna 1997/1𝓡998, 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, Ant𓂃werp 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, rep🥂roduced p. 563, fi🐈g. 462.
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brueghel, une dynastie de peintres, 18 September - 19 November 1980, no. 86.