Lot 24: Pieter Schoubroeck (Hessheim, near Frankenthal c. 1570-1607 Frankenthal)

Pieter Schoubroeck (Hessheim, near Frankenthal c. 1570-1607 Frankenthal) The Tower of Babel oil on copper 17 7/8 x 30½ in. (45.4 x 77.5 cm.)

H. Minkowski, Der Turm zu Babel, Berlin, 1959, pp. 52 and 68, no. 153 and under no. 220, fig. 153, as by Jan Brueghel II and on panel. H. Minkowski, Der Turm zu Babel, Freren, 1991, pp. 174 and 200, no. 208 and under 309, fig. 208, as by Jan Brueghel II and on panel.

Anonymous sale [Stoner and Evans, London]; Christie's, London, 5 July 1926, lot 88, as Valckenburg [sic] (19 gns. to Leger). (Probably) Anonymous sale; Lepke, Berlin, 24 May 1927, lot 100, as Jan Brueghel II, where erroneously catalogued as on wood. By descent through the parents of the present owner.