February

Jacob Grimmer (Flemish, about 1525–1590)

about 1570-80

Medium/TechniqueOil on panel

DimensionsDiameter: 18.1 cm (7 1/8 in.)
Framed: 29.5 x 29.5 cm (11 5/8 x 11 5/8 in.) (each section 4 3/4 in.)

Credit LineGift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art

Accession number2017.4186

On View

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ClassificationsPaintings

Collections

Europe

ProvenanceBefore 1963, de Vaulx collection, France [see note 1]. By 1963, Auguste Fourcroy (b. 1909 - d. 1988), Brussegem, Belgium [see note 2]. December 13, 2000, anonymous sale, Christie's, London, lot 3. 2000, sold by Johnny van Haeften Ltd., London, to Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo, Marblehead, MA; 2017, gift of Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 14, 2017)

NOTES:
[1] Possibly Henri Foulon de Vaulx (b. 1844 - d. 1929) and/or his son, André Foulon de Vaulx (b. 1873 - d. 1951), Paris. This panel was originally part of a series of the twelve months, which had been broken up no later than about the mid-twentieth century; four of them (January, February, October, and December) were said to come from the de Vaulx collection. See Reine de Bertier de Sauvigny: Jacob et Abel Grimmer: Catalogue Raisonné (1991), pp. 94, 100, cat. nos. 4-8 (cat. no. 5 for the present panel).

[2] By 1963, the four panels were in Fourcroy collection, at that time attributed to Martin van Valckenborch. See Le Siècle de Bruegel: La peinture en Belgique au XVIe siècle (Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, September 27 - November 24, 1963), cat. no. 226. They remained together until they were sold through Christie's in 2000.