Jan Brueghel the Elder and Pieter Brueghel the Youthful at Public sale
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 Jan Brueghel the Elder and Hendrick van Balen |
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Pieter Brueghel The Youthful, The Tower of Babel, oil on panel. Estimate: $1,500,000 – 2,500,000. © Christie’s Photographs Ltd 2022.
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 Pieter Brueghel the Youthful Christ with the Girl Taken in Adultery oil on oak panel £300,000-400,000 |
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FOUR MAJOR WORKS BY PIETER BREUGHEL THE YOUNGER |
The Kermesse of Saint George (estimate: £2.5-3.5 million) is one in all his rarest and most authentic innovations, fully impartial from any of his father’s works and extra achieved than any of his different authentic compositions. Together with this image, solely 4 securely autograph variations are recognized. Georges Marlier, the pioneering Breughel scholar, dated the image to earlier than 1626-28. He praised it for brilliantly affirming the youthful Brueghel’s persona, calling it ‘100% “Breughelian”, not just for the dramatic rhythms that pervade it, but additionally within the stylisation of the figures and within the color harmonies. Whereas sustaining the continuity of Pieter the Elder’s artwork by way of these themes, his son Pieter provides rein to his personal explicit vigour, his personal style for anecdote and his personal mastery of his career that is the same as these of the best artists.’
Peasant Marriage ceremony by Pieter Bruegel the Elder now within the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. The image supplied on the market is one in all solely 4 recorded autograph variations by Brueghel the Youthful and this would be the first to come back to the market for the reason that late Seventies. And the ultimate image by Brueghel the Youthful comes from The Cunningham Assortment,
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The Outside Marriage ceremony Dance, dated 1621 (estimate: £1.2-1.8 million).
