Pieter Brueghel the Younger (Brussels 1564–1636 Antwerp), The Adoration of the Magi in a Snowy Landscape. Oil on oak panel, 36 x 57 cm. © Costermans

On the back the trefoil mark of the panel maker Michiel Claessens and the Antwerp guild mark

Provenance: anonymous sale Sotheby's London, 26 April 1950, lot 55 (as Brueghel the Elder); acquired by William Sabin and Sons, London; collection Huxley, Surrey, 1963; collection Roger Taverner; collection H.S. de Slowak, Montevideo, 1969; anonymous sale, Christie's New York, 11 January 1991, lot 74; anonymous sale, Tajan, Paris, 9 December 1996, lot 12; private collection, France

Literature: G. Marlier, ‘Pierre Brueghel le Jeune’, Brussels, 1969, p. 85, n° 22; K. Ertz, Pieter ‘Brueghel der Jungere (1564-1637/38) die Gemälde mit kritischem Œuvrekatalog’, Lingen, 2000, T. 1, p. 3113, n° E244.

Pieter Neefs II (Antwerp, 1620–1675) & Frans Francken III (Antwerp, 1607-1667), Interior of Antwerp cathedral. Oil on panel, 39 x 43 cm. Signed upper left 'Peeter neeffs' and lower right on the pilaster 'ffranck'. © Costermans

Provenance: collection of Gaston Delestre, and by descent, Paris.

Attributed to Nicolas Sageot (1666-1731), cabinet maker in Paris, A Louis XIV period commode, France, 1700-1710. H 83.5 x W 120 x D 65.5 cm. © Costermans

Rich marquetry of gilt copper and red tortoiseshell with 'Bérain' figures, plating of blackened wood, mounts of chiselled and gilt bronze. At the front the crest of the Medicis. Crossbow facade with three rows of drawers. Four feet with hooves in the form of foliage legs. 

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