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Fairground scene
Lost Art-ID
472298
Artist / Creator
Droochsloot, Joost Cornelisz.
Birth
1586, Utrecht?
Death
1666.05.14, Utrecht
Title
Fairground scene
Dating
1501/1600 (?)
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Oil ; Panel (Oak) / painted
Height
46.00 cm
Width
63.00 cm
Inventory number
35/40/176
Description
On both sides of a wide village street, surrounded by tall trees, are farmhouses and a church. On the left, in front of an inn, soldiers and women are drinking at a table. In the centre of the foreground, a horseman is chatting with a woman whose back is turned to the viewer. On the right peasants carousing under a lime tree, behind it a brawling company. In the background on the street and near the houses dancing couples and strollers. Inscribed left at a window frame of the inn
Provenance
Brederlo painting collection (Friedrich Wilhelm Brederlo); 1906 loaned to the city of Riga by the von Sengbusch family with the right to return the paintings at any time; Dr med. Reinhold Alexander and Margarete von Sengbusch; in 1944, the paintings were relocated to Troppau (now Opava, Czech Republic) together with the other Brederlo paintings on the orders of the regional commissioner and the provisional mayor of the city of Riga (Hugo Wittrock); when the relocated paintings were returned to Riga, however, this painting was not included in the crates; whereabouts since then unknown
Literature / Source
Katalog Wilhelm Neumann, Beschreibendes Verzeichnis der Gemälde der Friedrich Brederloschen Sammlung zu Riga, 1894, Nr. 40 (176); Sammlung Friedrich Wilhelm Brederlo - Frīdriha Vilhelma Brederlo Kolekcija Museum für Ausländische Kunst - Ārzemju mākslas muzejs Riga 2001, Nr. 16
Published since
Contact
Werner von Sengbusch
Wiesbadener Str. 26
61462 Königstein
Germany
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