拍品专文
After the fall of Antwerp in 1585, the Protestant Stalbemt family moved to Middelburg. Adriaen van Stalbemt later returned to Antwerp, becoming a master in the St. Luke's Guild around 1609. He is documented as having spent almost a year in England (1633-34), where he painted two views of Greenwich with King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria (still in the Royal Collection). His eclectic style reveals the influences of Jan Breughel I, Hendrick van Balen, Paul Bril and Adam Elsheimer, to whom a group of Stalbemt's pictures had previously been given (see K. Andrews, 'A Pseudo-Elsheimer Group: Adriaen van Stalbemt as Figure painter', in: The Burlington Magazine, CXV, 1973, pp. 301-6).
This beautifully preserved painting exhibits Stalbemt's characteristically meticulous brush technique and the extent of the influence by Jan Breughel I. A copper plate with the same measurements, depicting An Allegory of Winter sold with Christie's, Amsterdam, 13 November 1990, lot 207, may well have been a pendant to the present composition. A nearly identical pair of pictures by Adriaen van Stalbemt, larger and on panel, is recorded to have been with De Jonckheere in the past.
This beautifully preserved painting exhibits Stalbemt's characteristically meticulous brush technique and the extent of the influence by Jan Breughel I. A copper plate with the same measurements, depicting An Allegory of Winter sold with Christie's, Amsterdam, 13 November 1990, lot 207, may well have been a pendant to the present composition. A nearly identical pair of pictures by Adriaen van Stalbemt, larger and on panel, is recorded to have been with De Jonckheere in the past.