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DOI article:Slatkes, Leonard J.: Bringing Ter Brugghen and Baburen up-to-date
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18945#0222
8. Hendrick ter Brugghen,
Bagpipe Player in Profile,
1624, canvas, 101 x 83 cm,
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum,
Cologne (Phot. Rheinisches
Bildarchir Köln)
Strengthening this interpretation of the Bagpipe Players is the emergence of
a previously unknown, fully signed and 1624 dated ter Brugghen picture of a
Mocking Lutelayer (Fig. 10) that appeared in Christie’s London sales rooms,54
but has again disappeared. Most important, this canvas reveals hitherto
unrecognized levels of meaning in some of ter Brugghen’s pendant pairs.
54 Sale, Christie’s, London, December 12, 1986, lot 48, Must, in color. For pointing as a mocking
gesture see A. Blankert, “Heraclitus en Democritus; in het bijzonder in de Nederlandse kunst van
de zeventiende eeuw,” Nederlands kunsthistorisch jaarboek, 18, 1967, p.57.
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Bagpipe Player in Profile,
1624, canvas, 101 x 83 cm,
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum,
Cologne (Phot. Rheinisches
Bildarchir Köln)
Strengthening this interpretation of the Bagpipe Players is the emergence of
a previously unknown, fully signed and 1624 dated ter Brugghen picture of a
Mocking Lutelayer (Fig. 10) that appeared in Christie’s London sales rooms,54
but has again disappeared. Most important, this canvas reveals hitherto
unrecognized levels of meaning in some of ter Brugghen’s pendant pairs.
54 Sale, Christie’s, London, December 12, 1986, lot 48, Must, in color. For pointing as a mocking
gesture see A. Blankert, “Heraclitus en Democritus; in het bijzonder in de Nederlandse kunst van
de zeventiende eeuw,” Nederlands kunsthistorisch jaarboek, 18, 1967, p.57.
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