Jan van Bijlert, follower of - Merry Company - image-1
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Lot 1558 Dα

Jan van Bijlert, follower of - Merry Company

Auction 1185 - overview Cologne
20.11.2021, 11:00 - Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture 14th - 19th C.
Estimate: 5.000 € - 7.000 €
Result: 8.125 € (incl. premium)

Jan van Bijlert, follower of

Merry Company

Oil on panel (parquetted). 48 x 76 cm.

This painting, which has been ascribed to Jan Bijlert since the early 20th century, is now considered to be a copy after a lost work by this artist (P. Huys Janssen op. cit.).

Certificate

With an expertise from Ellen Bernt (according to Lempertz catalogue 1991).

Provenance

Auctioned by van Goethem, Brussels 15.5.1889, nr. 88 (attr. to F. Bol). - Auctioned in Berlin 24.6.1930, nr. 386 (attr. to Bijlert). - Auctioned by P. Brandt, Amsterdam 30.11.1976, nr. 2. - Lempertz, Cologne 23./26.11.1983, lot 1473 (attr. to Bijlert). - Lempertz auction 674, Cologne, 12.12.1991, lot 21 (attr. to Bijlert).

Literature

P. Huys Janssen: Jan Bijlert. Catalogue Raisonné, 1998, p. 183, nr. C 18, illus. 218.