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Parish Fair
Lost Art-ID
108101

Artist
Valckenborch, Lucas van
Birth
1535, Löwen
Death
1597.02.02, Frankfurt (Main)
Place of activity
Mecheln; Lüttich; Aachen; Linz (Donau)
Title
Parish Fair
Datierung
1574
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
oak / painted
Diameter
28.00 cm
Inventory number
Ahv 9
Description
Signed and dated on the right of the house: „L 1574 | V V“; on the left, under a tall oak tree, of which every single leaf is painted in detail, a bagpiper stands with two children; six peasant couples are dancing; next to the tree an old couple sits with a beer mug, another couple sits next to a covered wagon; in the foreground, a large kettle stands over the fire, in which an old man stirs, while a woman throws salt into the kettle; behind the dancers on the right, one can see the tavern "The Swan", in front of which more peasants are drinking; a few monks approach from the left; a bridge crosses the creek, behind which there is a village with a church; one can see a fight on the village green, stalls on the left next to the church and banqueters, carousers and dancers in front of another tavern; everything is unpleasant and crude, but very lively, with the background executed very finely in cool tones.
Provenance
Private property of duke Ernest II of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. [...]. 1935 in the Ducal Museum, Oberlichtsaal 2, reorganized exhibition (file 3405); letter of January 30, 1937 (file 3475); 1943 still present in the museum (catalog 1943, sheet 15); May 31, 1935 in the register of nationally valuable art monuments (ThHStA-Weimar, C 1624); whereabouts unknown; the picture appeared at an auction in 1945 - no proof of sale from the period between 1933 and 1945 can be ascertained in the records of the Gotha art collections.
Literature / Source
SSFG, SM, Archiv, Akte 3405: 1935; Akte 3475: Brief vom 30.1.1937; Katalog 1943, Bl. 15; ThHStA-Weimar, Thüringisches Ministerium für Volksbildung und Justiz, Abteilung Volksbildung in Weimar über Herzog von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha’sche Stiftung für Kunst und Wissenschaft, C 1624; Verlustdokumentation Neumeister
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Contact
Stiftung Schloss Friedenstein
Gotha
Schlossplatz 1
99867 Gotha
Germany
Phone
0049 (0) 03621 8234-0
Fax
0049 (0) 03621 8234-290
Contact
Dr. Tobias Pfeifer-Helke
Position
Stiftungsdirektor
Phone
+49 (0) 621-8234 100
Contact
Anastasia Yurchenko
Position
Provenienzforscherin
Phone
+49 (0) 3621-82 34 328
Contact
Dr. Timo Trümper
Position
Kustode für Gemälde und Plastik
Phone
+49 (0) 3621 8234 553
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