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3040

Sebastian Vrancx

1600 – Antwerp – 1647

Village kermesse. Circa 1634

Oil on oak. 51,6 x 75 cm (20 ⅜ x 29 ½ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Sebastian Vrancx. Village kermesse. Circa 1634.

Estimate:

EUR 50,000

 

- 70,000

USD 55,800

 

- 78,100

Sold for:

337,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 237-246

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

Information

Oil on oak. 51,6 x 75 cm (20 ⅜ x 29 ½ in.). Over the door lintel of the house front right the inscription: dit huys is goed (this house is good). Catalogue raisonné: Accompanied by a certificate by Friedrich Winkler, Berlin, dated 28 January 1931, where described as a "charakteristische ... Arbeit des Sebastian Vrancx“ (in the original) / accompanied by a certificate by Max J. Friedländer, Berlin, dated 23 August 1931, in which the work is attributed to "Pieter Huys" (Friedländer having erroneously interpreted the inscription on the door lintel as a signature, see above) (in the original). On the reverse, with wooden support lattice. Framed

Comparable work: Sebastian Vrancx: A Village Kermesse, 54,3 x 72,7 cm, Christie's, New York, 29 January 2014, lot 52.

Collection of the piano maker and industrialist Carl Bechstein (1826–1900), Berlin / his son Edwin Bechstein (1859–1934), Berlin / collection Kurt Rohde, Berlin (as Droochsloot) / collection Elisabeth Rohde, Berlin.

Source, collection Rohde-Hinze: annotated auction catalogue: Gemälde Alter Meister. Sammlung Carl Bechstein-Berlin, antique dealer Wertheim, 11 December 1930, lot 14, p. 12, plate XVIII, 1.200 RM (as Droochsloot)