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ATTRIBUTED TO JEROME DUQUESNOY (1602-1654) AND WORKSHOP, BRUSSELS, CIRCA 1650
Lot 36

ATTRIBUTED TO JEROME DUQUESNOY (1602-1654) AND WORKSHOP, BRUSSELS, CIRCA 1650

FAME AND FIDELITY

Closed6 December 2017

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GBP 20,000–30,000

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ATTRIBUTED TO JEROME DUQUESNOY (1602-1654) AND WORKSHOP, BRUSSELS, CIRCA 1650
FAME AND FIDELITY
Marble torchere figures

43 ½ in. (110.6 cm.) high, each
(2)

By tradition, the Walckiers de Gamerage family.
By tradition, purchased from the above by the Terlinden Family, Brussels.
Jules-Jacques van Ysendyck (1836-1901), architect, by 1885.
Purchased from the above in 1892 by the entrepreneur Théodore Capel, Braine l’Alleud.
Collection Jean Capel, 51 rue de la Tenderie, Watermael Boitsfort.
By descent in the Capel family until 2005.

Specialist note

Jerome Duquesnoy the Younger was the son of Jerome Duquesnoy the Elder and the brother of the more famous Francois Duquesnoy. He trained in his father’s workshop but travelled south to Rome with his brother in 1618 before working extensively in Spain and Portugal. He returned briefly to Rome in 1641, but on the death of his brother in 1643 he returned to his native Brussels where he had a flourishing career. Stylistically, these figures bear similarities to other documented works by Duquesnoy, including the marble putti surmounting the monument to Antoine Triest (Cathedral of St. Bavo, Ghent, see Fransolet, op. cit. pl. XXX) and the recently re-discovered Ganymede and the Eagle (Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster, inv. no. D-631 LM).