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Attributed to Hans Rottenhammer I (Munich 1564/5-1625 Augsburg) and Jan Breughel I (Brussels 1568-1625 Antwerp)
Lot 185 PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF MR. GERARD ARNHOLD

Attributed to Hans Rottenhammer I (Munich 1564/5-1625 Augsburg) and Jan Breughel I (Brussels 1568-1625 Antwerp)

The Judgment of Midas

Closed30 October 2018

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Attributed to Hans Rottenhammer I (Munich 1564/5-1625 Augsburg) and Jan Breughel I (Brussels 1568-1625 Antwerp)
The Judgment of Midas
oil on copper
10 3/8 x 13 5/8 in. (26.2 x 34.5 cm.)

(Possibly) Anonymous sale; Anton Creutzer vorm. Lempertz, Aachen, 19-20 October 1933, lot 137, as Johann Rottenhammer.
Fernand Stuyck (1887-1960), Antwerp; (†) his sale, Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 7-8 December 1960, lot 15.
with P. de Boer, Amsterdam, as Apollo and Pan.
Private collection, New York; Christie's, New York, 8 April 1988, lot 49, as Hans Rottenhammer, where acquired by the present owner.

Specialist note

The prime version of this composition is dated 1599 and is today in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (see H. Borggrefe, et al., Hans Rottenhammer: begehrt - vergessen - neu entdeckt, Munich, 2008, pp. 136-137, no. 40, illustrated).