LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on oak panel

Measurements:

12.60 in. (32.00 cm.) (height) by 19.69 in. (50.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed on the rocky bluff with the artist's device of an owl, and inscribed on an old label affixed to the reverse: Del Civetta

Exhibited:

Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, and Münster, Landesmuseum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte,. Sammlung Heinz Kisters . . Altdeutsche und Altniederländische Malerei, 25 June - 15 September and 6 October - 17 November 1963, no. 61

Literature:

K. Löcher, 'Berichte Nürnberg', in. Pantheon, 6/12, 1963, p. 398;. Sammlung Heinz Kisters, Altdeutsche und Altniederländische Malerei, Nuremberg 1963, no. 61, reproduced, plate 100; W. Weemans, Herri Met de Bles : Les ruses du paysage au temps de Bruegel et d'Erasme, Paris 2013, pp. 227-41, reproduced figs 152-59

Provenance:

Heinz Kisters (1912-1977), Kreuzlingen, Switzerland; By whom sold to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967); By descent to Adenauer's heirs, by whom sold back to Heinz Kisters; His sale, ('Collection formed by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, the Property of Heinz Kisters'), London, Christie's, 26 June 1970, lot 33, where unsold; Thence by inheritance