Johannes van Bronchorst: a publication and a painting identified in a French church

12/8/26 - Publication and attribution - Last June, a superb painting by Johannes van Bronchorst came up for sale at Christie’s Paris, which we had reported on and reproduced. This Utrecht artist was still obscure. This neglect, which began as early as the eighteenth century, can be explained both by his early death, at just twenty-nine, and by the small number of works he left behind, but also by the fact that his few surviving paintings were very quickly confused with those of his better-known father, Jan Gerritsz. van Bronchorst. It was not until the second half of the twentieth century that he began to emerge relatively from obscurity, while a monograph devoted to the Bronchorsts (his brother Gerrit was also a painter, albeit a less talented one) was published in 1993.