Name: ABRAHAM GOVAERTS (ANTWERP 1589-1626)
Brand: The Virgin and Child in a wooded landscape
Price: 16000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

ABRAHAM GOVAERTS (ANTWERP 1589-1626)
The Virgin and Child in a wooded landscape
oil on panel
19⁷⁄₈ x 26 in. (50.5 x 66 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 26 July 1968, lot 68, as 'Jan Brueghel and Jan van Kessel', where acquired by 4,000 gns. by the following,
with Leonard Koetser, London, as 'Jan Brueghel II and Pieter van Avont'.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 6 June 1984, lot 160, as 'Attributed to Jan Brueghel the Younger'.
[From a Private Collection]; Christie's, New York, 11 January 1989, lot 177, as 'Attributed to Jan Brueghel the Younger', where acquired by the present owner.

U. Härtung, K. Borms, Abraham Govaerts: der Waldmaler (1589-1626), Wommelgem, 2003, p. 150, no. 134, illustrated.

London, Leonard Koetser, Autumn Exhibition of Dutch, Flemish and Italian Old Masters, 4 October-10 December 1968, no. 11, as 'Jan Brueghel de Velours and Pieter van Avont'.

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The landscape in this painting follows verbatim that of two paintings by Jan Brueghel I, one of which is today in a German private collection and the other of which was sold Christie's, London, 12 December 1986, lot 3 (see K. Ertz and C. Nitze-Ertz, op. cit., pp. 533-537, nos. 244 and 245). Jan II treated the subject in at least one further example, which was formerly on the London art market (see K. Ertz, Jan Breughel der Jüngere (1601-1678): Die Gemälde mit kritischem Oeuvrekatalog, I, Freren, 1984, pp. 314-315, no. 147). The figures of the Virgin and Child differ slightly in the present painting from the other known examples.

More recently, Ursula Härtung and Kathleen Borms have suggested an attribution to Abraham Govaerts for this and five similar paintings (loc. cit.). The figures of the Virgin and Child appear to be by an as-yet unidentified hand.