LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on oak panel

Measurements:

46.02 in. (116.90 cm.) (height) by 64.37 in. (163.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed lower left on the face of a rock: PEETER/ BALTENS, inscribed in Latin on a stone block in the lower right corner: ZYZANIAM PRVVS SEMINAT DES TEMPORE MESSIS VEDEBUNT STŸGIUM CRIMINA FACTA CANEM, LVCIDA QVV[ M] COELI DVCETVR AD ATRIA IVSTVS IMPIVS ETERNI PREDA CHARONTIS ERIT

Exhibited:

Kassel, Staatliche Museen, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, inv. No. 1153 (on loan. circa 1991-92);. Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Von Bruegel bis Rubens , 4 September - 22 November 1992, no. 21.1; . Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, De Bruegel à Rubens , 12 December 1992 - 8 March 1993, no. 107; . Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Von Brueghel bis Rubens, 2 April - 20 June 1993, no. 21.1; . Essen, Kulturstiftung Ruhr Essen, Villa Hügel, Die Flämische Landschaft 1520-1700 , 23 August - 30 November 2003, no. 37; and subsequently in Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, 23 December 2003 - 12 April 2004, and Antwerp, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 8 May - 1 August 2004

Literature:

G. Hulin de Loo, in R. van Bastelaer and G. Hulin de Loo,. Peter Brugel l'ancien, son œuvre et son temps.. , Brussels 1907, pp. 373-74, no. 4;. J. Héjjas, 'Ein neues Bild von jüngeren P. Bruegel im Budapester Museum der bildenden Künste', in Az Orszagos Magyar Szépmüveszéti Műzeum evkönyvei , vol. IX, 1937-39, p. 202; . G.J. Hoogewerff, Het landschaap van Bosch tot Rubens , Antwerp 1954, pp. 54-55, reproduced fig. 36; . L. van Puyvelde, La peinture flamande au siècle de Bosch et Breughel , Brussels 1964, p. 149; . G. Marlier, 'Peeter Balten, copiste ou créateur?', in Musées des Beaux-Arts de Belgique (Brussels). Bulletin , vol. XIV, 1965, pp. 129, 132; . S.J. Kostyshyn, An Important Landscape by Peeter Baltens , Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna 1990, pp. 1-9, reproduced; . A. W[ied], in E. Mai and H. Vlieghe (eds), Van Bruegel tot Rubens , exh. cat., Antwerp 1992, pp. 234-35, no. 107, reproduced; . A. W[ied], in E. Mai and H. Vlieghe (eds), Von Bruegel bis Rubens , exh. cat., Vienna and Cologne 1993, pp. 293-94, no. 21.2, reproduced; . J. R[ees], in E. Mai (ed.), Das Kabinett des Sammlers , Cologne 1993, pp. 5-7, no. 3, reproduced; . A. W[ied], in Von Brueghel bis Rubens , exh. cat., Vienna 1993, pp. 293-94, no. 21.1, reproduced; . S.J. Kostyshyn, Door tsoeken men vindt: a reintroduction to the life and work of Peeter Baltens alias Custodis of Antwerp (1527-1584) , doctoral diss., Case Western Reserve University 1994, vol. I, pp. 225, 232, 246, 248, 251-52, 327, vol. II, pp. 558-72, cat. no. 26, reproduced vol. III, figs 12-14; . A. Wied, in A. Wied, K. Ertz and K. Schütz, Die Flämische Landschaft 1520-1700 , exh. cat., Lingen 2003, pp. 114-15, no. 37, reproduced

Provenance:

Paul Delaroff, St Petersburg, by 1907 (according to Hulin de Loo); bears his inked stamp on the reverse of the panel;. His deceased sale, Paris, Petit, 23-24 April 1914, lot 16, for 3,900 Francs; . Madam D.; . Her sale, Paris, 3 June 1920, lot 2; . Perhaps Carminati collection, Milan (according to Hoogewerff); . Achillito Chiesa, Milan, before 1925; . His sale, New York, American Art Association, 27 November 1925, lot 45; . Professor N. Castellino, Rome, where seen by Hoogewerff in 1926; . Thence by descent in Rome and Switzerland until after 1954; . With Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, 1990-91; . From whom acquired for the present collection