Summer [also titled: The Harvest]

Creator

Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564-1638)

Title

Description

Oil on panel
16 ¼ x 23 in. (41.3 x 58.4 cm)
Signed on lower left: P. Breughel

Provenance

Morgenroth Family, Berlin, probably inherited at least after 1955 by; Sigmund Morgenroth (1874-1963), Santa Barbara, California, sold January 1963 to; [Schaeffer Galleries, New York, sold January 1963 to]; [Newhouse Galleries, New York and Frederick Mont (Mondschein) (1894-1994), New York, sold December 1963 to]; Arthur William Sidney Herrington (1891-1970) and Nell C. Herrington (1891-1966), Indianapolis, Indiana, by inheritance to their son; Arthur Clarke Herrington (1931-2018), Maryland, to August 1978; Unidentified thieves stole the painting from Arthur C. Herrington, Cohasset, MA home; Police recovered and returned the painting August 1979 to; Arthur Clarke Herrington (1931-2018), Maryland, bequest 2018 to; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.[1]

[1] Refer to curatorial/object file.

Exhibitions

1955 – Santa Barbara, CA, Council of Art, Santa Barbara Public Library, Faulkner Gallery, Fine Art from Local Collections, From 5 January 1955.

1964 – Champaign, IL, Krannert Art Museum, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. A.W.S. Herrington of Indianapolis, Indiana, European and American Paintings and Graphic Art; European, American, and Oriental Decorative Arts, 27 September – 25 October 1964, no. 11, illus.

1965 – Indianapolis, Leah Ransburg Fine Arts Center, Indiana Central College, Paintings from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. A.W.S. Herrington, 2 – 10 October 1965, no. 4, illus.

1968 – Indianapolis, IN, Art Association of Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, The Nell Clarke Herrington Memorial Exhibition, 7-28 April 1968, Bulletin/Catalogue, Spring 1968, p. 68, illus.

1968 – Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Civic and Cultural Center, Selections from the Herrington Collection, Inaugural Exhibition of the Arts Museum, 3-19 May 1968, no. 14, illus.

References

“Fine Art from Local Collections To Be Shown at Faulkner Gallery.” Santa Barbara News-Press[?]: 2 January 1955).
Seldes, Henry J. “Arts and Artists: Locally-Owned Art Works Shown in Faulkner Gallery.” Santa Barbara News-Press (9 January 1955): p. B-1, B-2, illus.
Marlier, Georges. Pierre Bruegel le Jeune. Brussels: Editions Robert Finck, 1969, p. 230.

Jolna, Stacy. “Boston Police Recover $2.5 Million in Stolen Art.” The Washington Post (16 August 1979).
Maremont, Mark, Ross Kerber and William M. Carley. “Antiques Dealer May Have Information About Art Theft.” The Wall Street Journal (30 August 1997).

Ertz, Klaus. Pieter Brueghel der Jüngere (1564-1637/38). Die Gemälde mit Kritischem Œuvrekatalog, Band II. Lingen: Luca Verlag, 1988/2000, pp. 596-7, no. E 641 (Morgenroth), illus., and no. E 643 (Herrington).
Amore, Anthony M. and Tom Mashberg. Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011, pp. 111-3, 219.

Status

Under Research

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