Jan or Frans Verbeeck

The Witches' Sabbath



Jan or Frans Verbeeck - The Witches' Sabbath



Jan or Frans Verbeeck
The Witches' Sabbath
70.5 x 93.9 cm
Oil on panel
Sale Christie's, London, 6 December 2018


Provenance

Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (1614-1662), Brussels and Vienna, listed in the inventory of the Imperial Collection of 1659, inv. no. 397, and by descent in the Habsburg collection to,
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1685-1740), Vienna, listed in the inventory of the Imperial Collection of 1772, inv. no. 33, and later transferred to,
Pressburger Schloss, Pressburg (now Bratislava), listed in the castle’s second inventory of the autumn of 1781, inv. no. 60, and later transferred to,
Schloss von Ofen, Budapest, in 1784, and probably sold in 1856 in Budapest by order of the Imperial offices.
Ignatz Pfeffer, Budapest, by 1882.
Péteri collection, Budapest, by 1905.
Private collection, Budapest, by at least 1927.
Rolf Toussaint, Munich, by 1952.
Acquired by the father of the present owner
Sale Christie's, London, 6 December 2018, nr. 3