CORNELIS PIETERSZ. BEGA (1631/32 Haarlem 1664) Young... Lot 3029

CORNELIS PIETERSZ. BEGA (1631/32 Haarlem 1664) Young woman in an interior holding a glass. Oil on canvas. Monogrammed lower left: CB. 26.7 × 22.2 cm. Provenance: – Collection of Marquis de Colbert, Château du Saussay (inscribed verso on the canvas). – Via inheritance to the Bourbon Busset family, Château du Saussay. – Sale Sotheby’s, Paris, 23.6.2011, Lot 46. – With John Mitchell Fine Paintings, London. – European collection. Exhibited: Aachen / Berlin 2012, Cornelis Bega: Eleganz und raue Sitten, Suermondt Ludwig Museum, 15.3.–10.6.2012 and Staatliche Museen zu Berlin/Gemäldegalerie, 29.6.–30.9.2012, no. 73. Literature: Exh. cat. Cornelis Bega. Eleganz und raue Sitten, ed Peter van den Brink and Bernd Wolfgang Lindemann, Stuttgart 2012, p. 250–252, cat. no. 73 and illustrated on back cover. In the exhibition catalogue of 2012 Peter van den Brink dedicates an extensive entry to the present painting and emphasises its status in Bega's oeuvre and its exceptional quality. For the description and lot essay in English, please visit our website: www.kollerauctions.com. * The full tax is charged on this item marked * in the auction catalogue, i.e. VAT is charged on the sum of the bid price plus the surcharge for those items. The VAT will be refunded to Purchasers providing a validly stamped export declaration.