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Bartholomeus Breenbergh

Deventer 1598 – 1657 Amsterdam

Landscape with Cimone and Iphigenia. 1638

Oil on oak. 60,3 x 53 cm (23 ¾ x 20 ⅞ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Bartholomeus Breenbergh. Landscape with Cimone and Iphigenia. 1638.

Estimate:

EUR 30,000

 

- 50,000

USD 33,500

 

- 55,800

Sold for:

81,250 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 237-246

The Rohde-Hinze Collection 1 – Old Masters, Friday, 03.07.2015

Information

Oil on oak. 60,3 x 53 cm (23 ¾ x 20 ⅞ in.). Monogrammed and dated lower right: BBreenberg f. At - 1638. Catalogue raisonné: Accompanied by a certificate by Max J. Friedländer, Berlin, dated 28 November 1926, where described as a "reizvolles, echt signiertes Werk von B. Breenbergh“ (in the original). Catalogue raisonné Roethlisberger 1981, no. 191. The panel seems to have been trimmed at the side, some time after 1928, in the course of which the upper portion of the ruin has been covered. Panel with bevelled edge on all sides.. Framed

Selection of other versions by Breenbergh: 1640, signed, Gemäldegalerie Berlin, inv. no. 924 / circa 1645/47, signed, 36 x 47 cm, private collection / 1647, 36 x 45 cm, Milwaukee Art Museum, inv. no. M1991.437.

Related literature: Marcel Roethlisberger: Bartholomeus Breenbergh, exh. cat. (Richard L. Feigen & Co.), London 1991, p.58f..

1928 collection Clough, London (at that time 60 x 84,5 cm) / collection of the archeologist Wolfgang Zorer (died 1940), Reutlingen / 1940 collection Kurt Rohde, Berlin / collection Elisabeth Rohde, Berlin.

Source collection Rohde-Hinze: annotated auction catalogue: Sammlung Zorer, Berlin und verschiedener Kunstbesitz, Auktionshaus H. W. Lange, Berlin, 5–6 April 1940, lot 9, 1.560 RM / book inventory no. 868 (1940) / receipt of the auction house, no. 149 / correspondence from Marcel Roethlisberger, Geneva, to Frieda Hinze, dated 14 September 1971

Auction catalogue: Coll. Clough, Robinson, London, 28 June 1928, lot 154 / Marcel Roethlisberger: Bartholomeus Breenbergh. The Paintings, Berlin and New York 1981, cat. no. 191, p. 76 (with ill.)