Lot 245: Johan Danckerts , The Hague circa 1615 - between 1681/1687 Amsterdam or England A Bacchanal oil on canvas

signed lower center J. Danckerts oil on canvas

measurements note 61 by 58 3/4 in.; 154.9 by 149.2 cm.

1893 Catalogue of the Lanfranconi Collection, cat. no. 52 (as by Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem).

Baronet Wombell, London (according to the J.M. Heberle catalogue entry);
Grazioso Enea Lanfranconi, (1850 - 1895), Bratislava, Slovakia;
By whose Executors sold, Cologne, J.M. Heberle, October 21, 1895, lot 80 for '600' to 'Wells' (as by Cornelis Holsteyn, according to Hofstede de Groot);
Eugen Boross, until 1927;
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, inv. no. 27.146, from 1927 - 1983;
By whom sold, New York, Christie's, June 10, 1983, lot 159.

The female figure reclining on white drapery at right seems to have been inspired by the female figure in the far right foreground of Titian's The Bacchanal of circa 1520, Prado Museum, Madrid, inv. no. 418. Danckerts repeated this figure in a number of other paintings, such as Cimon and Iphigenia, dated 1648 (private collection, Berlin) and Diana and her Nymphs, sold Vienna, Dorotheum, March 24, 1999, lot 453.
Although of Italian origin, Grazioso Enea Lanfranconi was one of the most acclaimed and important collectors of art in 19th century Slovakia. From 1867 until his untimely death in 1895, he used his palaces at Bratislava, or Pressburg in German, to display his impressive trove of prints, books, maps, and paintings, which included one hundred and sixteen Dutch and Flemish works.υ1 1. I. Ciulisova, Paintings of the 16th Century Netherlandish Masters in Slovak Art Collections, Bratislava 2006, p. 17 -18.