LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

17.13 in. (43.50 cm.) (height) by 22.83 in. (58.00 cm.) (width)

Condition:

With Painted Added Strips of 1 cm on Each Side

Literature:

G. Ring, "Eine Versuchung des Heiligen Antonius von Pieter Bruegel dem Aelteren", in Oud Holland, vol. 51, 1934 (as by Pieter Bruegel the Elder);. G. Arpino & P. Bianconi, L’opera completa di Bruegel, Milan 1967, p. 90, cat. no. 17, reproduced (as location unknown, with a rejected attribution to Pieter Bruegel the Elder); . M. Lavin, Seventeenth Century Barberini Documents and Inventories, New York 1975, passim.

Provenance:

Cardinal Maffeo Barberini (1568-1644), Rome, by 1623;. Don Taddeo Barberini (1603-1647), Prince of Palestrina;. Thence by descent to his second son, Prince Maffeo Barberini (1631-1685) (as Pieter Bruegel the Elder);. Thence by descent to Cardinal Carlo Barberini, until at least 1704;. With P. & D. Colnaghi, London;. From whom acquired by a Swiss private collector, 1985; . From whom acquired by the present owner.