Christiaen van Couwenbergh (Delft 1604-1667 Cologne)
Christiaen van Couwenbergh (Delft 1604-1667 Cologne)

Diana after the hunt, with a portrait of the artist

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Christiaen van Couwenbergh (Delft 1604-1667 Cologne)
Diana after the hunt, with a portrait of the artist
signed with monogram and dated '1653 / C. B. F.' (lower centre, on the quiver)
oil on canvas
87 ½ x 74 7/8 in. (222.8 x 190.4 cm.)
Provenance
Hugó Kilényi (1840-1924); his sale, Ernst-Múzeum, Budapest, 26 November 1917, lot 10, as 'Carel Emmanuel Biset'.
Anonymous sale; Dorotheum, Vienna, 27 November 1945, lot 33, as 'Flemish Master, 17th century'.
Literature
A. Pigler, Acta Historiae Artium, II, Budapest, 1955, p. 187, note 17.
W. C. Maier-Preusker, Christiaen Van Couwenbergh (1604-1667) : oeuvre und Wandlungen eines hollädischen Caravaggisten, Cologne, 1991, pp. 176, 203, 205 and 213, no. A16, fig. 48.

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