



Lot 5*
Workshop of Marten van Cleve The Elder(Antwerp 1527-1581)The peasant's wedding: handing the presents to the bride
6 December 2023, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £12,800 inc. premium
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Workshop of Marten van Cleve The Elder (Antwerp 1527-1581)
The peasant's wedding: handing the presents to the bride
oil on panel
40.5 x 73.6cm (15 15/16 x 29in).
oil on panel
40.5 x 73.6cm (15 15/16 x 29in).
Footnotes
Provenance
Private Collection, The Netherlands, for at least 70 years
The present work is derived from a popular set of paintings by Marten van Cleve depicting scenes from a peasant wedding. A set of six panels, which included a version of the present episode, was formerly in the collection of Johann Arnold Freiherr von Schutz-Leerodt, and now in a private collection in Antwerp. A version of the present composition, by van Cleve, formerly part of a larger set, was offered at Sotheby's, London, 9 April 1986, lot 30 (see: G.Marlier, Pierre Brueghel le Jeune, Brussels, 1969, p. 342, fig. 209).