Lot 3046 - A176 Old Master Paintings - Tuesday, 22. March 2016, 02.30 PM
JOHANN BOECKHORST
(Münster 1604–1668 Antwerp)
Depiction of a Sibylle. Circa 1650-53.
Oil on canvas.
Inscribed upper right: IACEBIT IN FOEN AGNUS (lying shall be in the hay of the lamb).
101.2 × 80.8 cm.
Provenance:
- Galerie Matthiesen, Berlin, 1928.
- Anthony Reyre Gallery, London, 1953 (as Anthony van Dyck).
- Swiss private collection for several generations.
Literature:
- N. Foulon: Johan Boeckhorst 1605-1668. Zijn Leven en zijn Werk, Gent 1972, p. 77, no. S 23 (as Saint Agnes).
- J. Ostrand: Johann Boeckhorst. His life and his work, Diss. University of Missouri, Columbia 1975, p. 158-159, no. A 30 (as Saint Agnes, with wrong provenance information).
- M. L. Hairs: Dans le sillage de Rubens, Lüttich 1977, p. 78.
- H. Lahrkamp: Der "Lange Jan". Leben und Werk des Barockmalers Johann Bockhorst aus Münster, in: Westfalen, LX, 1982, p. 110, no. 64 (with ill.).
- H. Vlieghe: Nicht Jan Boeckhorst, sondern Jan van den Hoecke, in: Lorenz, A. / Rittmann, A.: Beiträge zum internationalen Colloquium "Jan Boeckhorst - Maler der Rubenszeit" im Westfälischen Landesmuseum Münster, Westfalen LXVIII, November 1990, p. 167, note 6.
- E. McGrath: Sibyls, Sheba and Jan Boeckhorst's "Part of the World", in: Balis, Arnout u. a. (Hg.): Florissant. Bijdragen tot de kunstgeschiedenis der Niederlanden, Liber Amoricum Carl van de Velde, Brüssel 2005, p. 357 and 359, fig. 7.
- Maria Galen: Johann Boeckhorst. Gemälde und Zeichnungen, Hamburg 2012, p. 136-138, no. 41 (with ill.).
CHF 7 000 / 10 000 | (€ 7 220 / 10 310)
Sold for CHF 84 500 (including buyer’s premium)
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