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FRENCH SCHOOL, 2nd half of the 17th century, follower of the…
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FRENCH SCHOOL, 2nd half of the 17th century, follower of the…
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Lot no. 20
Description
FRENCH SCHOOL, 2nd half of the 17th century, follower of the LE NAIN brothers
Peasant family around a table
Canvas.
46,5 x 59,3 cm
No frame.
Provenance: probably Charles Sedelmeyer (1837-1925), Austrian art dealer, art critic and publisher;
his sale, Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris, 16 May 1907, lot 224; probably Leger Galleries, London, circa 1931; Oscar
Bondy (1879-1944), Vienna, circa 1934, confiscated by the Gestapo in 1939 following the Anschluss of March 1938; acquired by
Hans Posse for the Sonderauftrag Linz of the Führermuseum, July 1940; transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point
(MCCP no.2276/1) and returned to the Republic of Austria on 16 May 1945; returned to the widow of Oscar Bondy in 1948,
Elisabeth (1870-1974); Leger Galleries, London; Jack Linsky (1897-1982) and Belle Linsky (1904-1987), founders of the Swansea
of the Swingline office supplies company and collectors; anonymous sale [The Estate of Belle Linsky],
Sotheby's, New-York, 3 June 1988, lot 16, as a circle of Louis Le Nain; sale A Park Avenue Collection, Christie's,
New York, 17 April 2024, lot 204, as after the Le Nain brothers.
Biblio. P. Rosenberg, Tout l'oeuvre peint des Le Nain,Paris, 1993, p. 79, no. 29C, listed as a copy; H. Wine, The
Seventeenth Century French Paintings in the National Gallery, London,2001, p. 198, NG 3879, no. 3, as copy; S. Lillie, Was einmal War, Vienna,2003, p.231, under the title Famille paysanne autour d'une table (Oelbild, Bauernfamilie beim Tischgebet); B. Schwarz, Hilters Museum, Die Fotoalben, Gemäldegalderie Linz, Vienna, 2004, pp. 134 and 294, no. VIII/16 b, fig. VIII/16.
Exhibition: Paris, Petit Palais, Les Le Nain, June-October 1934, no. 53, as Louis Le Nain, on loan from Oscar Bondy.
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