Anthony, The Temptations of St - London

Jan Bruegel the Elder (1568 - 1628)

Location:

London, King Street - England - Christies 2013

Material:

Oil on copper

Dimensions:

21 x 28,8

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Jan Breughel the Elder – the Velvet Brueghel – authored this small and entertaining Temptation of St. Anthony. According to the lot notes:

This Temptation of Saint Anthony is a rare example of the subject by Jan Brueghel, who despite a prolific oeuvre comprising nearly 400 works is only known to have turned to this theme on eight occasions (other examples are now in Kassel, Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel; New Haven, Yale University Museum; Munich, Alte Pinakothek; Vienna, Kunsthistoriches Museum; Italy, private collection; and France, private collection). This picture is closest in overall composition to a slightly larger copper dated 1604 now in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden.

(Partly) similar with Christies 2017 and De Jonckeere 2020.

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History:

Possibly in the private collection of JH de Bosschaert, who died in Antwerp in 1801. Was in a private collection in France before it was auctioned on 8 April 1981, lot no. 54 by Sotheby's in London. Then at Hotel Drouot in Paris on June 24, 1994, Lot No. 65. On Sale 1164, December 3, 2013, Lot No. 1 - 46 auctioned by Christies London, King Street.

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