Lot 111: Denijs van Alsloot (Brussels before 1573-1625/6)

A winter carnival with figures on the ice before the Kipdorppoort Bastion in Antwerp
oil on panel
23 5/8 x 34 1/2 in. (60 x 87.7 cm.)

This was Denijs van Alsloot's most successful composition, its popularity attested to by a comparatively large number of versions and copies. The primary treatment is generally understood to be the picture datable to circa 1620 in the Prado, Madrid while other versions include the pictures in the Musée Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (formerly attributed to Sebastian Vrancx); the Alte Pinakothek, Munich; and sold in these Rooms, 7 July 1978, lot 239. This version is apparently unrecorded.

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