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Lot description
RICHARD BRAKENBURG (DUTCH 1650-1702)THE FEAST OF SAINT NICHOLASOil on canvasSigned (lower right)95 x 115cm (37¼ x 45¼ in.)Provenance:Milton Galleries, LondonThe collection of Robert L. and Elise F. Burwell Jr.Their sale, Christie's, New York, Old Master Paintings, 25 May 2005, lot 273The feast of St Nicholas takes place on the 5th of December. The most important holiday in the Netherlands, it has been celebrated in the same way for centuries. Good children receive gifts from the saint. The little girl in the foreground, for instance, carries a toy which she got from the bucket of gifts on the table on the right. Naughty children, like the wailing boy on the right, only get a bundle of twigs in their shoe.