Live Auction 7783Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings & Watercolours Day Sale
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Lot 156

Gillis van Tilborgh (Brussels c. 1625-c. 1678) and Studio

Portrait of a family around a table served with lobster, a pie, bread and flowering spring onions, in a courtyard with a fountain and a sculpture garden, an orchard beyond

Closed9 December 2009

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GBP 22,500

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Gillis van Tilborgh (Brussels c. 1625-c. 1678) and Studio
Portrait of a family around a table served with lobster, a pie, bread and flowering spring onions, in a courtyard with a fountain and a sculpture garden, an orchard beyond
dated '1659' (lower centre)
oil on canvas
42¾ x 59 1/8 in. (108.6 x 150.2 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Boisgirard & Associés, Paris, 24 June 2004, lot 6.
Anonymous sale; Koller Auktionen AG, Zürich, 16 March 2005, lot 3062, as 'Attributed to Gillis van Tilborgh'.

Specialist note

Another version of this composition, also dated '1659', but with minor differences (most notably the absence of the young monk in the right foreground), was sold with a full attribution to van Tilborgh at Christie's, London, 14 June 1949 (lot 51), and offered again more recently as 'Studio of Gillis van Tilborgh' at Butterfields, San Francisco, 13 November 2002 (lot 7043).