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Images from my 1555 Lutheran bible. Funeral of Jacob. By Georg Lemberger.

Daily image from "Kunstuur", a series of temporary exhibitions of ca. 1900 (mainly) Belgian art with a 1-hour audio tour. Frans Van Leemputten, "Palm Sunday in the Kempen" (Kempen = poor regio in north of Flanders), 1889, Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Brussels.

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Sale of the collection Fursac in Brussels, lot 182: Peter Paul Rubens, "Heads frontal and in profile" (study), panel, 18*25cm, 12000Fr. Haven't found this one again. Not convinced it's by Rubens, but a good work nevertheless.

Images from my 1555 Lutheran bible. Joseph presents his family to the pharaoh. A 1920s racecar to the right. Monogrammed by Georg Lemberger.

Noordfrans boek in en over het Nederlands, ten minste 9 drukken bekend, maar de eerste (1714) is onvindbaar, en deze 2de (eerste volledige) van 1734 lijkt ook uiterst zeldzaam. 200 Euro, matige staat, maar een buitenkansje als je dit zoekt. www.interencheres.com/art-decorati...

What in the AI gobbledegook is this?

Daily image from "Kunstuur", a series of temporary exhibitions of ca. 1900 (mainly) Belgian art with a 1-hour audio tour. Evariste Carpentier, "Shepherdess and her cow", ca. 1910, 130*197cm, private collection. Unsold at Sotheby's 2008 (est. 40000€) www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/...

Images from my 1555 Lutheran bible. Joseph speaks to his brothers. Trees as usual a combination of a palm tree and a weeping willow. I guess palm trees were the intention. By Georg Lemberger.

Daily image from "Kunstuur", a series of temporary exhibitions of ca. 1900 (mainly) Belgian art with a 1-hour audio tour. Frans Van Holder, "An evening", 1912, 195*282cm, collection of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Brussels.

Sale of the collection Fursac in Brussels, lot 178: Joshua Reynolds, "Nelly O'Brien", canvass, 125*100cm, from the coll. of Lord Chesterfield, 300Fr. No image, price suggests a poor copy, but description and size matches this one from the Hunterian Museum exactly? artuk.org/discover/art...

Images from my 1555 Lutheran bible. The pharaoh´s dream. Strange bed. By Georg Lemberger.

Daily image from "Kunstuur", a series of temporary exhibitions of ca. 1900 (mainly) Belgian art with a 1-hour audio tour. Louise de Hem, "Poverty - the Needy", ca. 1902, collection of the Museum of Ypres. Lighting in the exhibition made a better photo not possible.

Sale of the collection Fursac in Brussels, lot 171: Jean-Baptiste Pater, "Gallant scene in a park", canvass, 66*81cm, 38000Fr. This is supposedly a work by Bonaventure de Bar, copying a Pater from the Wallace Collection. Current location unknown. watteauandhiscircle.org/de%20bar%202...

Images from my 1555 Lutheran bible. Joseph flees the wife of Potiphar. By Georg Lemberger.

Daily image from "Kunstuur", a series of temporary exhibitions of ca. 1900 (mainly) Belgian art with a 1-hour audio tour. Pierre Paulus de Châtelet, "Motherhood", 1912. Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Mons. Coal mines and steel industry brought riches to the country, but the cost...

Sale of the collection Fursac in Brussels, lot 170: Joachim Patinir, "Flight into Egypt", panel, 62*53cm, 48000Fr. It was sold at Artcurial in 2015 as Netherlands, early 16th century, for 48920 Euro. Hadn't left the family who bought it at Fursac until then. www.artcurial.com/ventes/2657/...

Images from my 1555 Lutheran bible. Joseph thrown in the well. By Georg Lemberger.

Daily image from "Kunstuur", a series of temporary exhibitions of ca. 1900 (mainly) Belgian art with a 1-hour audio tour. This festive painting is deceptive. Leon Spilliaert, "artillery shells over Ostend", 1917, private collection.

Sale of the collection Fursac in Brussels, lot 162: French school, 15th century, "Mater Dolorosa", panel, 67*47cm, 20000Fr. This is actually a Hans Holbein the Elder, acquired by a dealer in Luzern and in 1927 sold to the Gemäldegalere Berlin. A beautiful bargain... search.smb.museum/object/obj-8...

Images from my 1555 Lutheran bible. Would you like to dance with me? Also known as Jacob wrestling with the angel. By Georg Lemberger.

Daily image from "Kunstuur", a series of temporary exhibitions of ca. 1900 (mainly) Belgian art with a 1-hour audio tour. Leon Spilliaert, "Ostend beach", 1909, private collection.

Sale of the collection Fursac in Brussels, lot 158: A.-G. Neysts (sic, presumably Gillis Neyts), "View of Antwerp", 57*85cm, 6400Fr. It's a 1681 view of the Cathedral (one of the best in its kind). It was offered at auction at De Vuyst in 2019 with an est. of 10,000 Euro.

12 loten strips gekocht, aan wisselende prijzen en half gegokt (maar 1 foto per lot). Voorlopig veel mooi gerief, zoals deze slechte staat maar volledige 1ste drukken uit de vroege jaren 50 aan zowat 1.5 euro per stuk. Goede staat is al snel 100 Euro per stuk, dit is wat behapbaarder.

Images from my 1555 Lutheran bible. Jacob´s ladder. Georg Lemberger´s trees are wild.

Daily image from "Kunstuur", a series of temporary exhibitions of ca. 1900 (mainly) Belgian art with a 1-hour audio tour. Leon Spilliaert, "Lighted buoy", 1910, private collection.

Sale of the collection Fursac in Brussels, lot 155: Jean-Marc Nattier, "Portrait of Madam Elisabeth de France", canvass, 39*31cm, 41000Fr. Seems to be a very close copy of the original in the Museum of Kopenhagen (shown right). open.smk.dk/artwork/imag...

That first one is just delicious!

Images from my 1555 Lutheran bible. Abraham sacrificing his very small son, who already feels the heat.

Daily image from "Kunstuur", a series of temporary exhibitions of ca. 1900 (mainly) Belgian art with a 1-hour audio tour. Léon Frederic, "The old ones", 1887, 115*201 cm. On loan from the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Antwerp. fine-arts-museum.be/nl/de-collec...

Sale of the collection Fursac in Brussels, lot 154: Master of the Female Half-Lengths, "Portrait of a young woman", panel, 45*31cm, 44000Fr. This Mary Magdalene Reading composition is known from different masters around Ambrosius Benson, this one is a bit strange around the eyes and mouth.

Images from my 1555 Lutheran bible. As I miss the first pages (some 6 images), for me it starts with this, "Lot and his daughters". Bottom left shows Lots wife, turned into a salt pillar. By Georg Lemberger

Daily image from "Kunstuur", a series of temporary exhibitions of ca. 1900 (mainly) Belgian art with a 1-hour audio tour. I should visit these more often. Georges Creten, "2 sisters", 1926. Better in reality than on my photo. fine-arts-museum.be/nl/de-collec...

Sale of the collection Fursac in Brussels, lot 121: fourth Jacob Jordaens, "Heracles and the Hydra", canvass, 212*130cm, 9600Fr. Could be the same one that was stolen by the Nazis from a Belgian owner, Van Gelder. Original, by Rubens, is in Turin. lootedart.belgium.be/en/art/hercu...

Images from my 1555 Lutheran bible. Titlepage (image left). The original design was done by Lucas Cranach (image upper right): this later edition has a redrawn version of that image (at least 3 versions are known, 3rd version lower right). Second person either Frederick III or John the Steadfast.

Last picture from my visit to the Sint-Salvator cathedral in Bruges. Jacob Van Oost the Elder, "Joseph and the child Jesus", ca. 1660, 308*208cm.

Daily picture from my visit to the Sint-Salvator cathedral in Bruges. Pieter Frans Casteels, "The Annunciation, in a garland of flowers", 1694, 156*118cm. Plus a very charming Madonna and Child about which I can't find further info online it seems.

Sale of the collection Fursac in Brussels, lot 120: Jacob Jordaens, "2 Children, one playing a flute", canvass, 62*62cm, 4000Fr. As can be seen from that price, the buyers in 1923 didn't consider it a real Jordaens... No idea why Jesus is playing the flute (or smoking a pipe?). No later trace found.

Last of my 6 French Jules Verne buys: "Michel Strogoff", 1895, band "au portrait collée", rare version where the binding for another title has been altered for Strogoff by pasting new labels on front and spine, as described in link to shop (1200 Euro? Wow...) share.google/1Etk7yFJtRSp...