LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on oak panel

Measurements:

17.32 in. (44.00 cm.) (height) by 29.25 in. (74.30 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with the owl device lower centre

Literature:

A Catalogue of the Pictures, Works of Art, etc. at Northwick Park, 1864 (reprinted 1908), no. 41, as by 'Nieulant;' T. Borenius, A Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures at Northwick Park, 1921, no. 112; M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting: From Van Eyck to Bruegel, London 1956, reproduced fig. 186; L. Van Puyvelde, La peinture flamande au siècle de Bosch et de Bruegel, Paris 1962, p. 227; W.S. Gibson, 'Mirror of the Earth.' The World Landscape in Sixteenth-Century Flemish Painting, Princeton 1989, pp. 30, 102, note 126; L. Serck, Henri Bles et la Peinture de Paysage dans les Pay-Bas méridionaux avant Bruegel, unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Louvain, 1990, pp. 371-3; L. Serck, in J. Toussaint (ed.), Autour de Henri Bles, exhibition catalogue, Namur 2000, p. 176, no. 12, reproduced.

Provenance:

Possibly the 2nd Lord Northwick, Thirlestane House, Cheltenham; His deceased sale on the premises, Philips, 26ff July 1859, either lot 914 or 1777; Bought back at the sale by his nephew the 3rd Lord Northwick, at Northwick Park by 1864; His widow, Lady Northwick; By whom bequeathed to her grandson Captain E.G. Spencer-Churchill, 1912; His deceased sale, London, Christie's, 28 May 1965, lot 47, for 7,500 Guineas to Hallsborough; M.A. Hassid, Esq.; With Hallsborough Gallery, London, 1970; From whom acquired in 1970 by G_�nter and Anneliese Henle, Duisburg; Their sale, London, Sotheby's, 3 December 1997, lot 30, for ��133,500 to De Jonckheere; With Galerie de Jonckheere, Paris, by whom sold to the present collector.