The Virgin and Child surrounded by a garland of flowers

Details

ANTWERP SCHOOL, SECOND QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY
The Virgin and Child surrounded by a garland of flowers
oil on panel
25 ¼ x 19 3⁄8 in. (64.2 x 49.2 cm.)

Provenance

Elisabeth Plankinton Mackintosh (1910-2009), Milwaukee, by whom bequeathed in 1973 to,
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin; Christie's, New York, 29 May 2001, lot 124, as 'Attributed to Andries Daniels', where acquired by the present owner.

Exhibited

Como, Villa Olmo; Tel Aviv, Museum of Art, La dinastia Brueghel, 24 March-20 November 2012, no. 14, as 'Jan Brueghel I and Sir Peter Paul Rubens'.
Rome, Chiostro del Bramante, Brueghel: Meraviglie dell'arte fiamminga, 18 December 2012-2 June 2013, no. 14, as 'Jan Brueghel I and Sir Peter Paul Rubens'.
Paderborn, Galerie in der Reithalle, Die Brueghel-Familie, 21 February-21 June 2015, no. 73, as 'Jan Brueghel I and Sir Peter Paul Rubens'.
Naples, Donnaregina Monumental Complex, on loan, February-April 2018, as 'Jan Brueghel I and Sir Peter Paul Rubens'.

Conditions of sale

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Lot Essay

Previously given to Jan Brueghel I and Sir Peter Paul Rubens by Eric Larsen and Justus Müller Hofstede, the figures of the Virgin and Child in the present work repeat, with slight variations, those in the inner face of the left wing of a triptych by Rubens now in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp (inv. nos. 300-304; fig. 1). That work was commissioned by Maria Maes, the widow of Jan Michielsen, a wealthy Antwerp merchant, soon after her husband's death in 1617, providing a terminus post quem for the present work.

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