LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

29.92 in. (76.00 cm.) (height) by 44.49 in. (113.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with the owl device upper left

Exhibited:

Manchester, Manchester City Art Gallery,. European Old Masters (Art Treasures Centenary), 1957, no. 70

Literature:

City of York Art Gallery, Catalogue of Paintings, Foreign School 1350-1800, vol. I, 1961, p. 73;. G.T. Faggin, La Pittura ad Anversa nel Cinquecento , 1968, p. 41; . A. Humphreys in Preview 88 (City of York Art Gallery Quarterly), vol. XXII, October 1969, p. 805, reproduced p. 804; . L. Serck, Herri Met de Bles , Louvain Catholic University, 1971, pp. 39, 58-59, 77-83, 100, 120; . W.S. Gibson, "Mirror of the Earth": The World Landscape in Sixteenth-Century Flemish Painting , Princeton 1989, p. 103, n. 145

Provenance:

Colchester Hall sale, 1957 (according to the 1961 City of York Art Gallery catalogue);. Admiral Sir Lionel Preston Bt. (1875-1971), Dunstable, 1957; . Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 4 April 1962, lot 48, to Crawley, for 2,200 guineas; . With Hal O'Nians, London; . Roger Vandermaele, Bellegem, Courtrai; . Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Gentleman'), London, Sotheby's, 3 July 1985, lot 30 (the medium wrongly described as copper); . Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Private Collector'), New York, Christie's, 31 May 1990, lot 84; . Where acquired by the present owner