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Lot 143: JAN BAPTIST WEENIX (AMSTERDAM 1621 - 1659 HUIS TER MEY) AND BARTHOLOMEUS VAN DER HELST (HAARLEM 1613 - AMSTERDAM 1670)

Est: $40,000 USD - $60,000 USDSold:
Sotheby'sNew York, NY, USJanuary 26, 2012

Item Overview

Description

PROPERTY OF THE LISE HAAS TRUST
SHEPHERD BOY WITH SHEEP AND GOATS
signed on the tree upper right : Gio/Ba/Weenix and on the collar of the boy: BVHelst
oil on canvas
58 1/4 by 58 in.; 148 by 147.3 cm.

Artist or Maker

Exhibited

London, Thomas Lawrie, 1903, no. 31.

Literature

J.J. de Gelder, Bartholomeus van der Helst. Een studie van zijn werk, zijn levensgeschiedenis, een beschrijvende catalogus van zijn oeuvre, een register en 41 afbeeldingen naar schilderijen, Rotterdam 1921, no. 20;
S. Lillie, Was einmal war: Handbuch der enteigneten Kunstsammlungen Wiens, Vienna 2003, p. 99, inv. no. 58 (as Jan Baptist Weenix);
J. van Gent, Bartholomeus van der Helst, Een studie naar zijn leven en werk, Amsterdam 2011, cat. no. S204 (under paintings listed as authentic by De Gelder, but whose whereabouts are unknown).

Provenance

Dr. Leroy d'Etiolles, Paris;
His sale, Paris, Febvre, Hôtel Drouot, 21-22 February 1861, lot 132 (as Jan Baptist Weenix), sold for Fr 2,150;
With Thomas Lawrie, London 1903-1921;
Dr. Gustav Arens, Vienna;
Lise Haas (née Arens), Vienna;
Confiscated and allocated to the Fuehrermuseum in Linz ;
Restituted May 1948 (MCCP inventory no. K1035) and thence by descent.

Auction Details

Important Old Master Paintings and Sculpture

by
Sotheby's
January 26, 2012, 12:00 PM EST

1334 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10021, US