Gillis Claeissens
Christ The Saviour Adored By Abbot Robert Holman
Estimate: 200.000 - 300.000 GBP
Price realised: 187.500 GBP
Price realised: 187.500 GBP
Description
Gillis Claeissens
BRUGES 1536/7 - 1605
CHRIST THE SAVIOUR ADORED BY ABBOT ROBERT HOLMAN
inscribed on the donor's gloves with his initials: RH and with his coat of arms on the prie-dieu
oil on oak panel, rounded top, within a South Netherlandish mid-to-late seventeenth-century fruitwood frame carved with angels bearing instruments and symbols of the Passion
25.4 x 15.2 cm.; 10 x 6 in.
Commissioned by Robert Holman, Abbot of Notre Dame des Dunes; | Mr Pennell; | His (anonymous) sale ('A small assemblage of Pictures of a High Class'), London, Christie's, 30 June 1832, lot 2 (as Hemmelinck), for £24.3s. to Coxe; | Samuel Jones Loyd, later 1st Baron Overstone (1796–1883), by whom acquired c. 1835 (according to the Guide to the Pictures at Lockinge House, 1928); | Thence by inheritance to his son-in-law Brigadier-General Rober
BRUGES 1536/7 - 1605
CHRIST THE SAVIOUR ADORED BY ABBOT ROBERT HOLMAN
inscribed on the donor's gloves with his initials: RH and with his coat of arms on the prie-dieu
oil on oak panel, rounded top, within a South Netherlandish mid-to-late seventeenth-century fruitwood frame carved with angels bearing instruments and symbols of the Passion
25.4 x 15.2 cm.; 10 x 6 in.
Commissioned by Robert Holman, Abbot of Notre Dame des Dunes; | Mr Pennell; | His (anonymous) sale ('A small assemblage of Pictures of a High Class'), London, Christie's, 30 June 1832, lot 2 (as Hemmelinck), for £24.3s. to Coxe; | Samuel Jones Loyd, later 1st Baron Overstone (1796–1883), by whom acquired c. 1835 (according to the Guide to the Pictures at Lockinge House, 1928); | Thence by inheritance to his son-in-law Brigadier-General Rober
Despite a disappointment, a good price for Gillis Claeissens
This work of art by Gillis Claeissens could be acquired at Sothebys in London in July 2018 for an unexpectedly low price. In the Old Masters Evening Sale auction, the work Christ The Saviour Adored By Abbot Robert Holman changed hands for GBP 187,500.00 (€ 210,228.73) - missing the lower end of the estimate range of GBP 200,000.00 – 300,000.00. Despite this disappointing result, Christ The Saviour Adored By Abbot Robert Holman is the most expensive artwork by Gillis Claeissens that we have observed at auction so far.
Trotz Enttäuschung ein guter Preis für Gillis Claeissens
Dieses Kunstwerk von Gillis Claeissens konnte im Juli 2018 bei Sothebys in London für einen unerwartet niedrigen Preis ersteigert werden. In der Auktion Old Masters Evening Sale wechselte die Arbeit Christ The Saviour Adored By Abbot Robert Holman für GBP 187.500,00 (€ 210.228,73) den Besitzer – und verfehlte damit das untere Ende der Schätzpreisspanne von GBP 200.000,00 – 300.000,00. Trotz dieses enttäuschenden Ergebnisses ist Christ The Saviour Adored By Abbot Robert Holman das teuerste Kunstwerk von Gillis Claeissens, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.
Gillis Claeissens - Auction history
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