Lot 39: ADRIAEN BROUWER (OUDENAARDE 1605 - 1638 ANTWERP) AND JOOS VAN CRAESBEEK (NEERLINTER CIRCA 1605 - 1654/61)

PROPERTY OF AURORA TRUST
YOUNG CHILDREN AT PLAY IN A LANDSCAPE
oil on panel
13 7/8 by 19 5/8 in.; 35 by 50 cm.

W. Bode, Adriaen Brouwer: sein leben und seine weke, Berlin 1924, p. 128, reproduced no. 89 (as by Brouwer and figures possibly by Craesbeek);
M.J. Friedländer, Die Kunstsammlung von Pannwitz, Munich 1926, vol. I, pp. X, 7, no. 32, reproduced pl. XXIII (as by Adriaen Brouwer);
A.L.M., "Die Sammlung von Pannwitz," in Pantheon, I, May 1928, p. 260, reproduced p. 258 (as by Adriaen Brouwer);
F. Winker, Pantheon, XVII, May, 1936, p. 164 (as by Craesbeek);
G. Böhmer, Der Landschafter Adriaen Brouwer, Munich 1940, pp. 106-107, cat. no. 38, reproduced pl. 38 (as by Brouwer and figures possibly by Craesbeek);
H. Gerson and E.H. Ter Kuile, Art and Architecture in Belgium 1600 to 1800, Baltimore 1960, pp. 147, 194, note 12 (as figures by Craesbeek and landscape by Brouwer);
G. Knuttel, Adriaen Brouwer: The Master and his Work, The Hague 1962, pp. 159-161, 192 (as ascribed to Brouwer).
K. De Clippel, Joos van Craesbeeck , Turnhout, 2006, pp. 335 - 336, cat. no. D125 (as wrongly attributed to Joos van Craesbeeck)

Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, Lord Taunton (1798-1869), Stoke Park, Over Stowey, and later Quantock Lodge, Bridgewater, Somerset;
A. Jansen collection, Amsterdam, circa 1924;
With J. Goudstikker, Amsterdam;
Collection of Catalina von Pannwitz, Berlin and Amsterdam.