Circle of Cornelis van Poelenburch

(17th century, after circa 1620)
Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus
With monogram m.m.
Oil on panel, 36.5 x 51.2 cm
Provenance:
- Collection Gabritschewsky, Munich (1929)
- Auction Helbing, Munich, 3-4 May 1933, lot 469 (as Van Poelenburgh)
- Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York City, 23 November 1966, lot 16 (as Van Poelenburgh)
- Collection Fordham University, New York City (1966)
- Auction Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 9 January 1980, lot 264 (as Van Poelenburgh)
- Auction Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 11 November 1997, lot 23 (as studio of Van Poelenburgh)
- Private collection, the Netherlands
Literature:
B. Snackenburg, Gesamtkatalog Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister Kassel, vol. I, Staatliche Museen Kassel, Mainz, 1996, pp. 22, cat.no. GK 193 (as studio of Van Poelenburgh)
N.B.I:
Registrated at the RKD - Institute for Dutch Art History in The Hague under number 36660.
N.B.II:
According to Schnackenburg (see literature), this painting is a studio version with some variations on the original in the collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lille. A highly comparable painting titled Venus, Bacchus und Ceres in Wolken, can be found in the collection of the Gemäldegalerie in Kassel (inv.no. GK193).