Lot 46: Joint Workshop of Hendrick Terbrugghen (Deventer 1588-1629 Utrecht) and Dirck van Baburen (Utrecht c. 1594/5-1624)

Joint Workshop of Hendrick Terbrugghen (Deventer 1588-1629 Utrecht) and Dirck van Baburen (Utrecht c. 1594/5-1624)
A boy holding a flute and jug
oil on canvas
76 x 63.2 cm.

H. Wentzel, 'Unbekannte Werke von Terbrugghen in Dänemark und Schweden', Die Kunst und das schöne Heim, Munich, 1954, IV, pp. 123-4, illustrated, p.122, as 'H. Terbrugghen' and as indistinctly signed.
B. Nicolson, Hendrick Terbrugghen, London, 1958, p. 128, E115, plate 106a, as 'follower of Terbrugghen'.
L.J. Slatkes, Dirck van Baburen (c. 1595-1624): A Dutch painter in Utrecht and Rome, Utrecht, 1962, pp. 96-8.
L.J. Slatkes, Dirck van Baburen (c. 1595-1624): A Dutch painter in Utrecht and Rome, Utrecht, 1965, pp. 151-2, D11, no. 48, as 'Follower of Dirck van Baburen'.
B. Nicolson, The international Caravaggesque movement: list of pictures by Caravaggio and his followers throughout Europe from 1590 to 1650, Oxford, 1979, p. 35, as 'Master B'.
B. Nicolson, Caravaggism in Europe, Florence, 1990, 1, p. 84; 3, fig. 1079, as 'Master B'.
Exhibition catalogue, Rembrandt and his age: focus on man, Stockholm, Nationalmuseum 1992, p. 126, note 1.
L.J. Slatkes, W. Franits, The paintings of Hendrick ter Brugghen, 1588-1629: Catalogue Raisonné, Amsterdam, 2007, pp. 234-5, no. 17 as 'Joint workshop of Hendrick ter Brugghen and Dirck van Baburen'.

Probably anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 26 July 1935, lot 157, as 'Ter Brugghen: Toper Holding a Jug'.
H.F. Collings; Christie's, London, 5 November 1948, lot 157, as 'Terbrugghen' (to Arcade Gallery £44.4.0).
Sven Boström, Stockholm, 1958-1967.
Anonymous sale; Stockholm, Bukowski, 15-8 April 1959, lot 219, as 'ter Brugghen'.
Anonymous sale; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 21 November 1967, lot 475, as 'Dirck van Baburen'.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 1 November 1968, lot 58, as 'Terbrugghen'.

Christie’s charges a premium to the buyer on the Hammer Price of each lot sold at the following rates: 29.75% of the Hammer Price of each lot up to and including €20,000, plus 23.8% of the Hammer Price between €20,001 and €800.000, plus 14.28% of any amount in excess of €800.000. Buyer’s premium is calculated on the basis of each lot individually.
Both Benedict Nicolson and Leonard Slatkes support the assumption that Terbrugghen and Van Baburen shared a studio between 1622 and 1624 and that the present lot was executed in this workshop, by a pupil who looked carefully at the oeuvre of both masters (see op. cit., 2007, p. 235). Nicolson assembled this painting together with a handful of other works under the name 'Master B' and believes this figure to be one of the stock characters used by the studio.