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An image of A wooded landscape with a bridge and sportsmen at the edge of the river by Paul Bril

Paul Bril

(Netherlands 1553-1554–1626)

Title
A wooded landscape with a bridge and sportsmen at the edge of the river
Year
1590s
Media category
Painting
Materials used
oil on canvas
Dimensions

88.3 x 67.5cm stretcher; 111.4 x 90.1cm frame

Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
Credit
Purchased with funds provided by the Sinclair Gillies Deaccessioning Fund and Sam Hughes Memorial Fund 1998
Accession number
250.1998
Location
15th–19th c European art
Provenance (8)

Johnny Van Haeften Ltd (England, estab. 1977), 1997-Aug 1998, London/England, Purchased by the AGNSW from Johnny Van Haeften Ltd 1998. Johnny Van Haeften Ltd owned the painting in partnership with Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna.

Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna (Austria), 1997-Aug 1998, Vienna/Austria, Purchased by Galerie Sanct Lucas from an Austrian Noble Family 1997.

Private Collection, pre 1997, Austria

Abels Brothers (Germany), 1935, Cologne/Germany, [dealer]

Julius Stern (Germany), 04 Apr 1932, Dusseldorf/Germany, Anonymous sale, no.11

Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus (Germany), 12 Nov 1918, Berlin/Germany, Anonymous sale, no.55 (with pendant).

Otto E Messinger (Italy), circa 1910, Rome/Italy, in the collection of Messinger by 1910, see 'La Collection Messinger' by P d'Achiardi, 1910, plate no. 87

Private Collection, 1748, Italy, unidentified 18th century Italian collection (label verso)

Bibliography (4)

'Acquisitive minds' by Connell Nisbet, pg. 23-27, Look Dec 2003-Jan 2004, Dec 2003-Jan 2004, 24 (colour illus.).

'Collections: European Art Before 1900' pg. 20-21, Art Gallery of New South Wales Annual Report 1999 1999, 1999, 21.

Johnny Van Haeften Ltd (England, estab. 1977) (Author), Dutch and Flemish Old Master Paintings, London, 1997, (colour illus.). cat.no. 10, no pagination

La Collection Messinger 1910, 1910, 172-5 (illus.). plate no. 87