Autumn, from a Series of the Four Seasons

Autumn, from a Series of the Four Seasons

BK-1970-29-B

signature, on the base of the pedestal, incised: ‘A· QVELINVS F·’

sculptor: Artus Quellinus (II), Antwerp

c. 1680 - c. 1690

white Carrara marble

• height 100.5 cm x width 50 cm x depth 43 cm x weight 100 kg
• width 37 cm x depth 23 cm (plinth)

Purchased with the support of the Stichting tot Bevordering van de Belangen van het Rijksmuseum

purchase 1970

Public domain

…; from the dealer Webb of Bond Street, London, £250, to Richard Grenville, 1st or 2nd Duke of Buckingham, Stowe House, date unknown;{H.R. Forster, _The Stowe Catalogue: Priced and Annotated_, London 1848, p. 269, no. 86. Probably the dealer John Webb (1799-1880), who ran his business from no. 8 Old Bond Street from before 1837 until c. 1857. Because the date of the purchase is unknown, it is uncertain which duke acquired the piece: either the 1st (1776-1839) or the 2nd (1797-1861) Duke of Buckingham.} sale collection Richard Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1797-1861), Stowe House (Christie and Manson), 3 October 1848, no. 86 (1st suppl. cat., p. 8), £89 s. 5, for all four sculptures, to Mark Philips, Esq.;{H.R. Forster, _The Stowe Catalogue: Priced and Annotated_, London 1848, p. 269, no. 86.} unknown private collection, England; from Heim Gallery, London, with BK-1970-29-A and -C, fl. 35,000, for all three, to the museum, with support from the Commissie voor Fotoverkoop, 1970

• cat.tent. Forty Paintings ans Sculptures from the Gallery's Collection, Autumn Exhibition, London (Heim Gallery 1966, nr. 39 (Herfst en Winter).
• C. Theuerkauff, 'Nederlandse beeldhouwkunst uit de barok op de internationale tentoonstelling 'Grupello und seine Zeit' te Dusseldorp', Antiek 5 (1971), p. 558.

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