LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on panel
Size Notes:
141 x 176.5 cm.
Description:
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Exhibited:
Taichung, Taiwan Museum of Art, The Golden Age of Flemish Painting, 25 June-30 September 1988. Brussels, Place Royale, A l'ombre de Babel: L'art du Proche-Orient Ancien dans les collections belges, 3 February-26 March 1995.Graz, Eggenberg Palace, Der Turmbau zu Babel. Ursprung und Vielfalt von Sprache und Schrift, 5 April-5 October 2003, no. 19.
Literature:
C. de Tolnay, 'La Seconde Tour de Babel de Pierre Bruegel l'Ancien,' Annuaire des Muses Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, I, 1938, p. 114.H. Minkowski, Das Turm zu Babel, Freren, 1960, p. 55, fig. 158. G. Marlier, Pierre Brueghel le Jeune, Brussels, 1969, pp. 95-97, fig. 39.K. Demus, Katalog der Gemldegalerie Wien: Flmische Malerie von van Eyck bis Pieter Bruegel d. , Vienna, 1981, p. 80. S. Grieten, 'De iconografie van de Toren van Babel bij Pieter Bruegel: traditie, vernieuwing en navolging', Jaarboek van het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Knsten Antwerpen, 1988, p. 130, fig. 18. H. Minkowski, Vermutungen ber den Turm zu Babel, Freren, 1991, p. 175, no. 214.P. Roberts-Jones and F. Roberts-Jones, Pierre Bruegel l'Ancien, Paris, 1998, p. 250, fig. 282.K. Ertz, Pieter Brueghel der Jngere (1564-1637/38). Die Gemlde mit kritischem Oeuvrekatalog, I, Lingen, 2000, pp. 231, 275-278, and 281, no. E 204.
Provenance:
with Gallery Nicholson, New York, by 1951. E. Z. Richards; Sotheby's, London, 6 July 1966, where acquired by the following, with Julius Weitzner, London. with Hallsborough Gallery, London, by 1969. Giuseppe Nehmad, Milan, by 1969. Charles de Pauw (1920-1984), Brussels; (), Sotheby's, London, 9 April 1986, lot 23, as 'Follower of Peter Bruegel I', where acquired by the present owner.