Live Auction 2829Old Master and 19th Century Art
Joint Workshop of Hendrick Terbrugghen (Deventer 1588-1629 Utrecht) and Dirck van Baburen (Utrecht c. 1594/5-1624)
Lot 46

Joint Workshop of Hendrick Terbrugghen (Deventer 1588-1629 Utrecht) and Dirck van Baburen (Utrecht c. 1594/5-1624)

A boy holding a flute and jug

Closed13 October 2009

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Joint Workshop of Hendrick Terbrugghen (Deventer 1588-1629 Utrecht) and Dirck van Baburen (Utrecht c. 1594/5-1624)
A boy holding a flute and jug
oil on canvas
76 x 63.2 cm.

Probably anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 26 July 1935, lot 157, as 'Ter Brugghen: Toper Holding a Jug'.
H.F. Collings; Christie's, London, 5 November 1948, lot 157, as 'Terbrugghen' (to Arcade Gallery £44.4.0).
Sven Boström, Stockholm, 1958-1967.
Anonymous sale; Stockholm, Bukowski, 15-8 April 1959, lot 219, as 'ter Brugghen'.
Anonymous sale; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 21 November 1967, lot 475, as 'Dirck van Baburen'.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 1 November 1968, lot 58, as 'Terbrugghen'.

Specialist note

Both Benedict Nicolson and Leonard Slatkes support the assumption that Terbrugghen and Van Baburen shared a studio between 1622 and 1624 and that the present lot was executed in this workshop, by a pupil who looked carefully at the oeuvre of both masters (see op. cit., 2007, p. 235). Nicolson assembled this painting together with a handful of other works under the name 'Master B' and believes this figure to be one of the stock characters used by the studio.