Name: BALTHASAR BESCHEY (ANTWERP 1708-1776)
Brand: An elegant company, traditionally identified as the wedding of Jacob Johannes Cremers, all seated and making music on a terrace; and A portrait of Jacques-Jean Cremers (1736- after 1803) and his wife, dancing, on a garden terrace surrounded by other members of the family, playing music
Price: 55000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

BALTHASAR BESCHEY (ANTWERP 1708-1776)
An elegant company, traditionally identified as the wedding of Jacob Johannes Cremers, all seated and making music on a terrace; and A portrait of Jacques-Jean Cremers (1736- after 1803) and his wife, dancing, on a garden terrace surrounded by other members of the family, playing music

the first signed and dated 'B: Bescheij 1768' (lower left); the second signed 'Bescheij' (lower left)
oil on canvas
30 x 42 in. (76.2 x 106.7 cm.)
a pair

Commissioned by a member of the Cremers family, and by descent to the following,
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 12 December 2012, lot 357.

J. Puraye, ed., Memoires du General Comte François Dumonceau: 1790-1811 : illustrés d'après les estampes et les tableaux du temps, Brussels, 1960, I, pp. 5 and 45.

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