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No Room at the Inn (London)

No Room at the Inn (London)

Object type Painting
Genre Religious
Date 1607
Dimensions 22 x 32 cm
Support Copper
Medium Oil
Signature BRUEGHEL 1607
Our attribution Jan Brueghel the Elder
Other authorities Ertz 2008-10, #223
Ertz 1979, #155
Location/Most Recent Sale London, Sotheby's, July 7 2010, #13, for 1,609,250 pounds
Tags Traveling, Cattle, Horse, Parrot, Inn, Burghers, Holy family, New Testament, Road, Wagon
Ertz 1979, cat. #155, fig. 259
Sutton 1992 (Harold Samuel Collection), p.40, fig. 3
Ertz 2008-10, cat. #223
Jackson, Mississippi Museum of Art
Sep 17 1698 Antwerp Purchased by Elector Max Emanuel of Bavaria from either Gisbert van Ceulen (in Antwerp on 17th September 1698 (together with 104 other important paintings for 90,000 Brabantian guilders and not fully paid until 1774) or later in his life for the gallery of his newly built castle Schleißheim
1806 Schleißheim Bavarian Royal Collections
Before 1927 Munich Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen, inv. #1894
1927 Munich Deaccessioned and sold to Bertha Justina Schedel, Baroness von Greifenstein
After 1927 London Collection of Lord Carow
Jun 26 1957 London Sale, Sotheby's, Lot #82
Apr 1958 London Hallsborough Gallery
Private Collection
E.A. Honig
June 20, 2012

The present painting is not one of Jan's best, although clearly some buyer at Sotheby's liked it! The composition avoids faces, which seems odd to me. However, it is certainly immensely superior to the possible studio version which Ertz now accepts as autograph, Ertz 2008-10 cat. #224. Weak copy sold Milan (Finarte) 4.iv.89 #289 as Jan the Younger. Copy with St. Lucas, Vienna, 1997 (copper, 22 x 31) seemingly sig. & d. 1608.

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