Description
Attributed to Pierre BREBIETTE (ca. 1598 - 1650) Holy Family and Saint John the Baptist, surrounded by angels carrying the cross Canvas. Old restorations. 65 x 81 cm Provenance: Anonymous sale in Paris, Hôtel Drouot, December 12, 2005 (Tajan), No. 107. This work is the other version of a painting kept in a Swiss private collection (exhibition catalogue: Seule la peinture... Pierre Brebiette (1598 ?-1642), Orléans, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 2001-2002, p. 91, No. 80, repr. p. 1), which is smaller (canvas, 50.5 x 61 cm) and has some variations (two sunflowers on the left, different sky, darker colour range, more basic landscape). Other works by Brebiette related to this composition are known: - An etching bearing Quesnel's excudit and dated 1636, in which Saint Joseph is absent but in which a lamb is depicted and the landscape is more complex. - A drawing - in reverse - in sanguine in a private collection (13 x 17.5 cm, Piguet sale in Geneva, 26 September 2018), preparatory to engraving, a high copperplate painting (copper, 39 x 26 cm, sale in Bayeux, 14 July 2004).
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Attributed to Pierre BREBIETTE (ca. 1598 - 1650) Holy Family and Saint John the Baptist, surrounded by angels carrying the cross Canvas. Old restorations. 65 x 81 cm Provenance: Anonymous sale in Paris, Hôtel Drouot, December 12, 2005 (Tajan), No. 107. This work is the other version of a painting kept in a Swiss private collection (exhibition catalogue: Seule la peinture... Pierre Brebiette (1598 ?-1642), Orléans, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 2001-2002, p. 91, No. 80, repr. p. 1), which is smaller (canvas, 50.5 x 61 cm) and has some variations (two sunflowers on the left, different sky, darker colour range, more basic landscape). Other works by Brebiette related to this composition are known: - An etching bearing Quesnel's excudit and dated 1636, in which Saint Joseph is absent but in which a lamb is depicted and the landscape is more complex. - A drawing - in reverse - in sanguine in a private collection (13 x 17.5 cm, Piguet sale in Geneva, 26 September 2018), preparatory to engraving, a high copperplate painting (copper, 39 x 26 cm, sale in Bayeux, 14 July 2004).
