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De Jonckheere

Lucas van Valckenborch (Leuven 1535/6-1597 Frankfurt am Main)
The Kermesse of St. George, 1595
Oil on wooden panel
22.5 x 38.5 cm
Signed and dated 1595 LVV on the fountain
Provenance: collection of Charles Theodore of Bavaria (1724-1799), Elector of the Palatinate and Bavaria, Munich, inv. n° 138 (according to a label in brown ink on the back dating from 1799, n° 138); collection of Maximilian de Beauharnais, Duke of Leuchtenberg (1835-1852) (fragmentary label); Almas Gallery, Munich, 1941; private collection, South Germany
Literature: Pantheon, September 1941, supplement V, repr.; Bernt, Walter, Die Niederländischen Maler des 17. Jahrhunderts, Munich, 1948, n° 865 (1960 edition, n° 1216, repr.); Wied, Alexander, Lucas und Marten van Valckenborch. Das Gesamtwerk mit kritischem Oeuvrekatalog, Freren, Luca Verlag, 1990, pp. 176-77, n° 81, repr.