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Materials:
a pair, both oil on panel
Size Notes:
each panel: 9½ by 4¾ in.; 24 by 12 cm.
Description:
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Condition:
each framed: 10½ by 5¾ in.; 26.7 by 14.6 cm. Both panels are stable and cradled. They read clearly and present lovely images beneath the varnish. The paint surface is stable, with only a few very small dots of loss near some of the edges, for example near top of right panel Inspection under UV reveals a varnish that fluoresces unevenly. There are scattered strokes of retouching throughout the angels and their hair, primarily concentrated in the red fabric of both angels' costumes. There are some spots of retouching in the instruments, and some looser strokes of strengthening to the clouds at the edges. Both panels offered framed.
Literature:
Catalogue des Nouvelles Acquisitions de la Collection Goudstikker, Amsterdam 1930, cat. nos. 32c and 32d, reproduced (as Hans Memling); Catalogus der tentoonstelling van schilderijen en antiquiteiten: geexposeerd door den Kunsthandel J. Goudstikker in de zalen van den Rotterdamschen Kunstkring, p. 15, cat. no. 37, reproduced (as Hans Memling); A.P. de Mirimonde, "Les anges musiciens chez memling," in Jaarboek van het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp 1962/1963, pp. 49-50, reproduced fig. 33 (as School of Memling); G.T. Faggin, in L'opera completa di Memling, Milan 1969, p. 101, cat. no. 35 (as modest copies, possibly from the 16th century); D. De Vos, Hans Memling, Antwerp 1994, pp. 292-293, under cat. no. 81, note 8.
Provenance:
Marquis de Valderey, Madrid (according to Goudstikker records); With L. Blumenreich and Jacques Goudstikker (jointly owned), Amsterdam, before April 1930; Looted by Hermann Göring, Amsterdam, 29 June 1940; Seized by the Allies and transported to the 101st Aircraft Component Storage, Unterstein, before August 1945, from where the pair were stolen; Consigned for sale, Thomaston, Maine, Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, 11 May 2011, lot 236; Thereafter restituted to the heirs of Jacques Goudstikker.