Fools' Trade, The (De Narrenhandel) - Vienna - Dorotheum
Verbeeck, Frans the Old (1510 - 1570)
c. 1550
Location:
Unknown - Last location Dorotheum Vienna in 2014
Material:
Tempera on canvas or Oil on canvas (Dorotheum)
Dimensions:
132 x 186
Unverfehrt catalogue:
De Vrij catalogue:
More information
Credit line:
The painting is discussed extensively in book 'De Zotte Schilders' 2003, by E.de Bruyn and J. Op de Beeck
History:
Auctioned in 2007 and 2014 by Dorotheum in Vienna (Austria) - According website 'rkd.nl': Owned by Ivar Hellberg in Stockholm from 1936 to 1938, who had it auctioned in Stockholm in 1938. Reported in 1978 to Christies in London (April 14, 1978, lot no. 93), as an art dealership in Flanders and in 1981 to an unknown private individual in Flanders. On October 16, 2007, lot no. 38 auctioned at Dorotheum Palace in Vienna, as attributed to Frans Verbeeck and again on October 20, 2014, lot no. 33.
Literature:
Literature: A. Wied, ‘Een onlangs ontdekt schilderij van Frans Verbeeck’ in Antiek, 1980, pp. 214-216; P. Vandenbroeck,‘Het schildergeslacht Verbeeck. Voorlopige werkkataloog’, in Jaarboek van het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, 1981, pp. 31-60; pp. 55-57, no. 14a; I. Kockelbergh, The Fascinating Faces of Flanders through Art and Society, Antwerp, 1998, pp. 274-275, no. D68; P. Vandenbroeck, ‘Hieronymous Bosch: The wisdom of the riddle’ in: Hieronymus Bosch: The Complete Paintings and Drawings, Rotterdam-Amsterdam, 2001, pp. 100-193; J. E. de Bruyn and Op de Beeck,‘De Familie Verbeeck. Een raar schildergeslacht uit Mechelen’ in: De zotte schilders. Moraalridders van het penseel rond Bosch, Bruegel en Brouwer, Mechelen, 2003, pp. 88-93, no. 5
