Lot 3033* - A186 Old Master Paintings - Friday, 28. September 2018, 02.00 PM
Studio of GERARD VAN HONTHORST
(1592 Utrecht 1656)
A carousing musician.
Oil on canvas.
81 x 66.5 cm.
Provenance:
- Dorotheum auction, Vienna, 28.11.1967, Lot 2 (as Baburen).
- Heinz Mosch Collection, Wiesbaden, 1973 (label verso).
- Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 11.11.2008, Lot 88 (as workshop of Gerard van Honthorst).
- European private collection.
Exhibited:
5 Sammler - 5 Meinungen, Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, 8.4.-27.5.1973 (label verso).
Literature:
- Weltkunst, 1.11.1967, p. 1107 (with ill.).
- Gaskell, Ivan: The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Painting, London 1989, p. 190-191, footnote 24.
- Nicolson, Benedict: Caravaggism in Europe, Turin 1989, vol. I, cat. no. 1274, p. 126 (as "near-replica" of Honthorst).
- Judson, Richard J. / Ekkart, Rudolf: Gerrit van Honthorst 1592-1656, Ghent 1999, cat. no. 239, no. 1, p. 188-189.
Our painting is based on elements from two compositions by Gerad van Honthorst, one in the Museo de San Carlos in Mexico and the other in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Foundation in Lugano (see Judson / Ekkart 1999, cat. no. 239 and 242, p. 188-192). Judson believes that our work was painted in the first half of the 17th century, probably by a pupil of Honthorst. The particularly high painterly quality of our painting indicates that the master himself or someone working close to him was involved.
CHF 18 000 / 25 000 | (€ 18 560 / 25 770)
Sold for CHF 67 700 (including buyer’s premium)
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