Lot 210: HENDRICK TERBRUGGHEN

PROPERTY FROM A EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
DEVENTER 1588 - 1629 UTRECHT
A BRAVO SMOKING
possible remains of signature lower right
oil on canvas
67.1 by 56.6 cm.; 26 1/2 by 22 1/4 in.

B. Nicolson, The International Caravaggesque Movement, Oxford 1979, p. 100 (as signed), reproduced plate 131;
R. Spear, `review of Nicolson, above, in The Burlington Magazine, 121, 1979, p. 321;
L. J. Slatkes in the catalogue of the exhibition, Nieuw Licht op de Gouden Eeuw. Hendrick ter Brugghen en tijdgenoten, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, and Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Brunswick, 1986-7, p. 108, note 7;
B. Nicolson, Caravaggism in Europe, ed. L. Vertova, Turin 1990, vol. I, p. 195 (as signed), reproduced vol. III, plate 1185;
L.J. Slatkes, `Bringing Ter Brugghen and Baburen Up-To-Date,', in Bulletin du Musée National de Varsovie, 37, 1996, p. 216;
L.J. Slatkes & W. Franits, The Paintings of Hendrick Ter Brugghen 1588-1629. Catalogue Raisonné, Amsterdam & Philadelphia 2007, pp. 165-6, no. A54, reproduced plate 53.

Perhaps the tabacxdrincker that appeared as no. 64 in the inventory of the Amsterdam estate of Jeronimus Ranst's widow, Barbara Carel, compiled in 1678, where it was valued at f 12.12 by Barent Graet & Jan Rosa;
Malcolm Waddingham, London, 1977;
with Stanley Moss, Riverdale, New York, 1987;
Anonymous sale ("The Property of a Gentleman"), London, Christie's, 8 July 1994, lot 87;
With Salomon Lilian, Amsterdam, 1994;
Private collection, The Netherlands.