Karel Breydel, called Le Chevalier - Large Flemish Village Landscape with Rich Staffage - image-1

Lot 2081 Dα

Karel Breydel, called Le Chevalier - Large Flemish Village Landscape with Rich Staffage

Auction 1231 - overview Cologne
18.11.2023, 11:00 - Old Masters and 19th Century, Part I
Estimate: 30.000 € - 35.000 €
Result: 30.240 € (incl. premium)
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Karel Breydel, called Le Chevalier

Large Flemish Village Landscape with Rich Staffage

Oil on canvas (relined). 84 x 116 cm.

Karel Breydel was an older brother of Frans Breydel who became court painter in Kassel. He was in Antwerp a pupil of Pieter Rijsbreack for three years and then of Peter Ykens. He left for a trip to Italy and travelled via Frankfurt and Nuremberg. When he heard about his brother's success in Kassel, he abandoned his plans to go to Italy and travelled instead to Kassel to join his brother. Here the two brothers worked together for two years with considerable success. Breydel then travelled to Amsterdam. He was back in Antwerp in 1703 where he became a master of the Guild of Saint Luke in 1704.
He is recorded in Brussels in 1723 and in Ghent in 1726. He is now believed to have died in Antwerp in 1733.
The present painting is one of Breydel's characteristic large-format works, who often took his cue from Jan Breughel the Elder in genre scenes such as this.

Provenance

Dickinson Gallery, London. - Acquired there in 2011 and subsequently in a South German private collection.