Lot n° 97
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5000 - 7000
EUR
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Result
: 16 000EUR
MATTHEUS VAN HELMONT (ANVERS 1623 - BRUXELLES 1679) - Lot 97
MATTHEUS VAN HELMONT (ANVERS 1623 - BRUXELLES 1679)
Market scene
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Signed in the centre on the rock MV /Hellemont/F
Mattheus van Helmont, whose whereabouts in Italy is still unknown, depicts here a fancy Barberini square with Bernini's Triton fountain. This painting can be compared with other market scenes (Le Mans, Musée de Tessé, Budapest, Szépmüvészeti Museum)
Comparison with the one signed and dated 1663 (formerly in the Chester Beatty collection) allows us to locate our painting around this period
83 x 121 cm
Provenance :
Anonymous sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 6 February 2002 (Mes Libert et Castor), n°37, reproduced
Anonymous sale, Paris, Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild, 14 June 2006 (Me Kohn), n°714, reproduced
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