Lot 105: HUYBRECHT BEUCKELAER

ACTIVE IN ANTWERP 1563-AFTER 1584
THE FIRST PASSOVER FEAST
signed with monogram HB lower right above the amphora, dated on the column at center Aυo .1563 and inscribed EXODIυ .12
oil on panel
41 1/4 by 39 in.; 105 by 99 cm

Roosendaal, Roosendaal Museum, from 1949, on loan until returned to the Hague in 1975;
's-Hertogenbosh, Noordbrabants Museum, no. 172, on loan from the Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit;
Maastricht, Bonnefantenmuseum, on loan from the Instituut Collectie Nederland and included in the Museum's exhibition, Het 'glijk van de achterkant, 1999, no. 30.

J. Sievers, "Joachim Beuckelaer", Jahrbuch der Königlich Preussischen Kunstsammlungen, 32, 1911, p. 185ff (as Joachim Buckelaer);
The H. Lunsingh Scheurleer, "Pieter Aertsen en Joachim Beuckelaer en hun ontleeningen aan Serlio's architectuurprenten", Oud Holland, 62, 1947, p. 130, fig. 8 (as Joachim Beuckelaer);
D. Kreidl, "Joachim Beuckelaer und die Monogrammist HB", Oud Holland, 90, 1976, p. 162ff (as the Monogrammist HB);
D. Kreidl, "Der Monogrammist HB, Ein Niederländer in der Bronzino Werkstatt", Wiener Jahrbrüch der Kunstgeschichte, 34, 1981, pp. 165ff (as the Monogrammist HB);
Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst, Old Master Paintings, An Illustrated Summary Catalogue, 1992, p. 39 (as Joachim Beuckelaer);
M. Wolters, "De Monogrammist HB geidentificeerd: Huybrecht Beuckeleer", Album Discipulorum J.R.J. van Asperen de Boer, 1997, pp. 231 and 236, note 2;
R. van Wegen, catalogue of the exhibition, Het 'Gelijk' van de Achterkant, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, 1999, no. 3 (as Huybrecht Beuckeleer);
Die Kunstsammlung des Reichsmarschalls Hermann Göring by Guenther Haase, Edition q, 2000, p. 278 (listed in inventory of property seized from Göring by the US Army on 4 August 1945, as "Beukelaar, Joachim, Easter Feast, (Muhlmann Coll., Berlin Dec 1941) (KG-887)";
J. Bruyn, "Hubert (Huybrecht) Beyckelaer, an Antwerp portrait, and his English patron, the Earl of Leicester", Juliette Roding and Eric Jan Sluijter, Dutch and Flemish artists in Britain 1550-1750, Leids Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 13, 2003, pp. 85-112.

With Colnaghi & Eckford, London, by whom sold to;
Henry Burgh, Cheltenham, at whose sale acquired by;
George Pearse, Cheltenham, a Major in the Royal Artillery, by June 1869 (according to note written by him and attached to the reverse);
Anonymous sale, Berlin, Lepke, March 22nd, 1910, lot 49 (as by Beukeleer);
Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Frederik Muller, April 25th, 1911, lot 77 (as by The Monogrammist HB);
Dr. Rudolf Berl (1884-1963), an industrialist who lived in the Palais Rudolf Gutmann, Vienna, until 1939;
Transported from Austria after the Anschluss by the Dutch merchant, Job Thole, to Huizen, near Amsterdam, whence collected by Berl's agent in the Netherlands, Alfred Seidl, and deposited for storage with Ulrix, Brussels;
Acquired from Ulrix by Kayetan Mühlman on October 21st, 1941 and transported to Berlin by December (vide Mühlmann's label on the reverse);
Sold by Mülhmann to Field Marshal Hermann Göring for RM 3,200 on December 6th, 1941 and deposited in Carinhall, Göring's residence;
Captured with the rest of Göring's collection in a train by American troops and taken to the Munich Collecting Point, whence moved to the Netherlands in 1946-7;
The Instituut Collectie Nederland (earlier the Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit, no. NK 2646) until restituted to Dr. Berl's heir in 2002;
By whom sold ("Property of the Heirs of the Late Dr. Rudolf Berl"), New York, Sotheby's, 26 May 2005, lot 61;
There purchased by the present collector.