Lot 190
- 190
Circle of Adriaen Brouwer
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description
- Adriaen Brouwer
- Young Children at play in a landscape
- oil on oak panel
- 14 by 19 7/8 inches
Provenance
Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, Lord Taunton (1798-1869), Stoke Park, Over Stowey, and later Quantock Lodge, Bridgewater, Somerset;
A. Jansen, Amsterdam, circa 1924;
With J. Goudstikker, Amsterdam;
Collection of Catalina von Pannwitz, Berlin and Amsterdam;
Thence by descent until sold ('Property of the Aurora Trust'), New York, Sotheby's, 26 January 2012, lot 39 (as 'Adriaen Brouwer and Joos van Craesbeek' for $122,500).
A. Jansen, Amsterdam, circa 1924;
With J. Goudstikker, Amsterdam;
Collection of Catalina von Pannwitz, Berlin and Amsterdam;
Thence by descent until sold ('Property of the Aurora Trust'), New York, Sotheby's, 26 January 2012, lot 39 (as 'Adriaen Brouwer and Joos van Craesbeek' for $122,500).
Literature
W. Bode, Adriaen Brouwer: sein leben und seine weke, Berlin 1924, p. 128, reproduced no. 89 (as by Brouwer and figures possibly by Craesbeek);
M.J. Friedländer, Die Kunstsammlung von Pannwitz, Munich 1926, vol. I, pp. X, 7, no. 32, reproduced pl. XXIII (as by Adriaen Brouwer);
A.L.M., 'Die Sammlung von Pannwitz,' in Pantheon, I, May 1928, p. 260, reproduced p. 258 (as by Adriaen Brouwer);
F. Winker, Pantheon, XVII, May, 1936, p. 164 (as by Craesbeek);
G. Böhmer, Der Landschafter Adriaen Brouwer, Munich 1940, pp. 106-107, cat. no. 38, reproduced pl. 38 (as by Brouwer and figures possibly by Craesbeek);
H. Gerson and E.H. Ter Kuile, Art and Architecture in Belgium 1600 to 1800, Baltimore 1960, pp. 147, 194, note 12 (as figures by Craesbeek and landscape by Brouwer);
G. Knuttel, Adriaen Brouwer: The Master and his Work, The Hague 1962, pp. 159-161, 192 (as ascribed to Brouwer).
K. De Clippel, Joos van Craesbeeck , Turnhout 2006, pp. 335 - 336, cat. no. D125 (as wrongly attributed to Joos van Craesbeeck).
M.J. Friedländer, Die Kunstsammlung von Pannwitz, Munich 1926, vol. I, pp. X, 7, no. 32, reproduced pl. XXIII (as by Adriaen Brouwer);
A.L.M., 'Die Sammlung von Pannwitz,' in Pantheon, I, May 1928, p. 260, reproduced p. 258 (as by Adriaen Brouwer);
F. Winker, Pantheon, XVII, May, 1936, p. 164 (as by Craesbeek);
G. Böhmer, Der Landschafter Adriaen Brouwer, Munich 1940, pp. 106-107, cat. no. 38, reproduced pl. 38 (as by Brouwer and figures possibly by Craesbeek);
H. Gerson and E.H. Ter Kuile, Art and Architecture in Belgium 1600 to 1800, Baltimore 1960, pp. 147, 194, note 12 (as figures by Craesbeek and landscape by Brouwer);
G. Knuttel, Adriaen Brouwer: The Master and his Work, The Hague 1962, pp. 159-161, 192 (as ascribed to Brouwer).
K. De Clippel, Joos van Craesbeeck , Turnhout 2006, pp. 335 - 336, cat. no. D125 (as wrongly attributed to Joos van Craesbeeck).
Condition
The following condition report has been provided by Simon Parkes of Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc. 502 East 74th St. New York, NY 212-734-3920, simonparkes@msn.com, an independent restorer who is not an employee of Sotheby's.
This painting on panel is made from two sections of oak joined horizontally running through the center. There are no reinforcements on the reverse and the panel is in excellent condition. The painting has been lightly cleaned and varnished, although it seems that it could still clean and little more if required.
At present the painting seems to have no retouches and while this is highly unusual and a credit to the work, there are possibly a couple of spots in the white dress of the standing figure in the center, a few errant specks here and there and some slight unevenness to the darker colors, all of which would benefit from a small amount of retouching.
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Catalogue Note
Adriaen Brouwer died at the young age of 32 or 33 and left behind a relatively small corpus of paintings. Because of his many imitators and because signed pictures are rare, the contours of Brouwer's output have been somewhat difficult to define. This has been the case with this charming panel, which through its history has been attributed to Brouwer, to Craesbeeck and sometimes as a collaboration to both painters. The execution of this painting is very comparable to a late landscape by Brouwer in the Louvre (inv. R. F. 2559) which also shows a similar colouring and a fast, facile, handling of the brush, which is almost pointillist in passages.