Live Auction 13674Old Masters including Old Master & British Drawings and Watercolours
Attributed to Abel Grimmer (Antwerp c. 1570-1618/19)
Lot 108

Attributed to Abel Grimmer (Antwerp c. 1570-1618/19)

The Month of February: A village with peasants tending to their land, a church beyond

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Attributed to Abel Grimmer (Antwerp c. 1570-1618/19)
The Month of February: A village with peasants tending to their land, a church beyond
oil on panel, stamped with the clover leaf mark of the panel maker Michiel Claessens (active Antwerp 1590-1637)
20 ¼ x 29 ¾ in. (51.5 x 75.5 cm.)

Karel Ooms-van Eersel; Van Herck, Antwerp, 15 May 1922, lot 156, as 'Abel Grimmer'.

Specialist note

Two similar compositions of the present lot, both with smaller dimensions, are known. One of them was with P. de Boer, Amsterdam, and the other is in a private collection, Brussels (op cit, nos. 10, 11, pp. 264-5, pp.345-6).