Attributed to Pierre BREBIETTE (ca. 1598... - Lot 5 - Ader

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Attributed to Pierre BREBIETTE (ca. 1598... - Lot 5 - Ader
Attributed to Pierre BREBIETTE (ca. 1598 - 1650) Holy Family and St. John the Baptist, surrounded by angels bearing the cross Canvas. 65 x 81 cm (Old restorations) Provenance : Anonymous sale in Paris, Hôtel Drouot, December 12, 2005 (Tajan), n° 107. This work is the other version of a painting kept in a Swiss private collection (exhibition catalog: 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 variants (two sunflowers on the left, different sky, darker color range, sketchier landscape). Other works by Brebiette related to this composition are known: - An etching bearing the excudit of Quesnel and dated 1636 where Saint Joseph is absent but where a lamb appears and where the landscape is more complex. - A drawing - in reverse - in red chalk in a private collection (13 x 17.5 cm, Piguet sale in Geneva, September 26, 2018), preparatory to the etching, a painting on copper in height (copper, 39 x 26 cm, sale in Bayeux, July 14, 2004).
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