LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

32.20 in. (81.80 cm.) (height) by 49.57 in. (125.90 cm.) (width)

Markings:

with a coat-of-arms (lower right)

Literature:

G. Faggin, La pittura da Anversa nel cinquecento, Florence, 1968, p. 39, no. 16. W.S. Gibson, 'Mirror of the Earth': The World Landscape in Sixteenth-Century Flemish Paintings, Princeton, 1989, pp. 78 and 128, no. 17

Provenance:

Anonymous sale; Genolini, Milan, 29 March 1901, lot 41, as ‘Herri met de Bles’.. Anonymous sale [Property of a Private Collector]; Christie’s, London, 6 July 2006, lot 19, when acquired by the present owner