LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

33.78 in. (85.80 cm.) (height) by 4.61 in. (11.70 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Namur, Musée des Art anciens du Namurois, Autour de Henri Bles, 13 May-1 November 2000, no. 31 (catalogue entry by L. Serck).

Literature:

W. Kloek, ‘Pieter Aertsen en het probleem van het Samenstellen van yn oeuvre’, Nederlands kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, 40, 1989, pp. 12-13, fig. 14, as a follower of Herri met de Bles and Pieter Aertsen. L. Serck, Henri Bles et la Peinture de Paysage dans les Pay-Bas méridionaux avant Bruege, unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Louvain, 1990, pp. 851-853, no. 57.

Provenance:

Mrs James Cromwell; Christie’s, New York, 18 January 1984, lot 160. Anonymous sale; Christie’s, New York, 29 January 1998, lot 180, with a saleroom notice changing the attribution to ‘Circle of Herri met de Bles and Pieter Aersten’. with André Gombert, Paris, from whom acquired by the present owner.