Adriaen Brouwer Avarice: A Man Counting Coins
Property from a Distinguished New York Collection
Circle of Adriaen Brouwer
Avarice: A Man Counting Coins
oil on panel
panel: 9 ½ by 7 ½ in.; 24.3 by 19.1 cm.
framed: 13 ⅞ by 12 in.; 35.2 by 30.5 cm.
Condition Report:
The panel is uncradled and has a vertical bow. The varnish appears to have dulled and yellowed with time. There appears to have been some thinning in the dark brown and flesh tones, most evident along the right side of the picture where the vertical wood grain is perceptible. Inspection under UV light reveals a very thick and milky varnish that appears to mask past restorations. There is however an approximately 1.5 inch area of recent retouching in the bottom left quadrant. Offered in a carved and ebonized wood frame.
Catalogue Note:
This composition depicting the personification of Avarice is known in at least ten versions, the prime of which Karolien de Clippel has convincingly attributed to Adriaen Brouwer.1 The work probably originally comprised a series depicting the seven deadly sins, a popular subject in the early seventeenth century.
1 See K. de Clippel, Joos van Craesbeeck (1605/06 – ca. 1660): Een Brabants Genreschilder, Belgium 2006, pp. 288-289.
Provenance:
With J. Leegenhoek, Paris;
From whom acquired by René Küss (1913-2006), circa 1960;
Thereafter acquired by the present collector.
Bid on this lot
Property from a Distinguished New York Collection
Circle of Adriaen Brouwer
Avarice: A Man Counting Coins
oil on panel
panel: 9 ½ by 7 ½ in.; 24.3 by 19.1 cm.
framed: 13 ⅞ by 12 in.; 35.2 by 30.5 cm.
Condition Report:
The panel is uncradled and has a vertical bow. The varnish appears to have dulled and yellowed with time. There appears to have been some thinning in the dark brown and flesh tones, most evident along the right side of the picture where the vertical wood grain is perceptible. Inspection under UV light reveals a very thick and milky varnish that appears to mask past restorations. There is however an approximately 1.5 inch area of recent retouching in the bottom left quadrant. Offered in a carved and ebonized wood frame.
Catalogue Note:
This composition depicting the personification of Avarice is known in at least ten versions, the prime of which Karolien de Clippel has convincingly attributed to Adriaen Brouwer.1 The work probably originally comprised a series depicting the seven deadly sins, a popular subject in the early seventeenth century.
1 See K. de Clippel, Joos van Craesbeeck (1605/06 – ca. 1660): Een Brabants Genreschilder, Belgium 2006, pp. 288-289.
Provenance:
With J. Leegenhoek, Paris;
From whom acquired by René Küss (1913-2006), circa 1960;
Thereafter acquired by the present collector.
