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Friedrich Brentel (c.1580-1651)

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Friedrich Brentel (c.1580-1651)
Ladies and cavaliers in a ballroom, after Abraham Bosse (Leblanc 771)
signed and dated 'F Brentel 1634'
bodycolor heightened with gold
8.5/8 x 12½ in. (220 x 320 mm.)

Isaac M. D'Olier; Christie's, 13 July 1860, lot 235 (withdrawn).
Anon. sale, Christie's, 8 July 1949, lot 24 (62 gns.).
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 29 November 1977, lot 117 (2,000 gns).

Specialist note

After Bosse's etching published by Roland Le Blond, R.-A. Weigert, Inventaire du Fond Franais, Graveurs du XVIIe siècle, Paris, 1939, I, no. 1400.