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JAN VAN BIJLERT (1598–1671)

The Five Senses

Year Early 1630s
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 146 x 197.5 cm 57 1/2 x 77 3/4 in.

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Provenance

Baron Michele Angelo Lazzaroni (1863 – 1934), Villa Madeleine, Nice; and by inheritance to his brother

Baron Edgardo Lazzaroni (b. 1892), Palazzo Lazzaroni, Rome;

His Sale; Maître J.J. Terris, Nice, 16-21 June 1952, lot 125 (as ‘école flamande XVIIe’);

Anon. Sale; Palais des Congrès, Versailles, 27 May 1979, lot 40 (as ‘École Flamande du XVIIe Siècle’);

Private Collection, Paris, acquired from the above sale;

Private Collection, San Francisco, by descent from the above;

Private Collection, UK.

Literature

G.J. Hoogewerff, ‘Jan van Bijlert: Schilder van Utrecht (1598 – 1671)’, Oud Holland, Amsterdam, vol. LXXX, 1965, p. 26, no. 29b (as a replica);

P. Huys Janssen, in A. Blankert & L. J. Skates (eds.), Holländische Malerei in neuem Licht, exh. cat., Centraal Museum, Utrecht & Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Brunswick, 1986-87, p. 204, no. 42.1 (as another version of no. 42);

P.H. Janssen, Jan van Bijlert, 1597/98 – 1671, Amsterdam, 1998, p. 127, no. 68.1 (as a replica);

The work is recorded on the RKD database as by van Bijlert: https://rkd.nl/images/202111

Exhibitions / Fairs

On loan to the Legion of Honor Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco, 2021.

Exhibitions

  • In Vino Veritas: The Visual Rhetoric of Wine

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Artwork Details

The Five Senses — detail
The Five Senses — detail
The Five Senses — detail
The Five Senses — detail
The Five Senses — detail