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Garland of flowers, a cartouche with the penitent Magdalena

Lost Art-ID

567084

Aus Auktionskatalog W. Achenbach, 24./25.08.1938

Artist / Creator

Brueghel, Abraham

Birth

(vor) 1631.11.28, Antwerpen

Death

1697, Neapel

Place of activity

Rom; Neapel

Title

Garland of flowers, a cartouche with the penitent Magdalena

Dating

1660 (um)

Object type

Painting

Group of reported objects

Painting

Material / Technique

Oil ; Canvas / painted

Height

126.00 cm

Width

152.00 cm

Description

In a longitudinally oval flowering ring, which is completed by a flower-wreathed faun mask, the penitent Magdalena deposits in rocky landscape; Sign in the inner picture right below the reclining: Abraham Brueghel F. - in an old gold Frame

Literature: Versteigerungskatalog Hugo Helbing, München 1918: Katalog der Sammlung Messinger. Gemälde alter Meister. Verfasst von Dr. A. L. Mayer. Versteigerung in der Galerie Helbing in München, Wagmüllerstrasse 15. Dienstag, den 16. April 1918, Nr. 118; Versteigerungskatalog Auktionshaus Dr. Walther Achenbach, Berlin [Hrsg.]: Luxus-Villeneinrichtung: Besitz Kl., Berlin-Charlottenburg, Fasanenstraße 83 ; Versteigerung: 24. [und] 25. August 1938, Berlin, 1938. Nr. 42; Hairs, Marie-Louise: Les Peintres flamands de fleurs au XVIIe siècle. Paris – Bruxelles, Elsevier, 1955, S. 103f. sowie Katalog der Werke, S. 199.

Provenance

Possession of the Marquise d'Ughena; Collection O. Messinger; Munich; Auction, O. Messinger, H. Helbing Gallery, April 16, 1918, No. 118; [Hypothetically: acquisition of Klausner at an unknown time]; Collection Klausner, Berlin-Charlottenburg; Auction house W. Achenbach, 24 and 25 August 1938, no. 42 (figure 6 above, not auctioned); Confiscation by the Gestapo; Auction House W. Achenbach, August 29, 1941, No. 594

Published since

29.03.2017

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