Lot 168: Georg Flegel (Olmütz 1566-1638 Frankfurt am Main) and Workshop of Lucas van Valckenborch I (Leuven 1535/45-1597 Frankfurt am Main)

Georg Flegel (Olmütz 1566-1638 Frankfurt am Main) and Workshop of Lucas van Valckenborch I (Leuven 1535/45-1597 Frankfurt am Main)
A market stand selling pears, cherries, peas, leeks and lettuce, with two elegantly-dressed children, a view of a Frankfurt beyond
oil on canvas
32 3/8 x 47 in. (82.2 x 119.4 cm.)

S. Segal, 'Georg Flegel as a flower painter', Tableau, VII, 1984, p. 74, fig. 2.
A. Wied, Lucas und Marten van Valckenborch: Das Gesamtwerk mit Kritischem Oeuvrekatalog, Düsseldorf, 1990, pp. 36 and 189, no. 97, fig. 26.
A. Wied in K. Wettengl, ed., Georg Flegel, 1566-1638: Stilleben, exhibition catalogue, Historisches Museum, Frankfurt am Main, 1993, pp. 38-9, fig. 31.

with the art trade, Frankfurt am Main, 1984.

THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTOR

The view of Frankfurt in the background seems to show a part of the city not far from the historic Römer, the town hall of Frankfurt, with the Steinernes Haus, the Justitiabrunnen and the Brückenturm.