LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Size Notes:

30 x 44???? in. (76 x 113 cm.)

Description:

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Exhibited:

Manchester, Manchester City Art Gallery, European Old Masters, Art Treasures' Centenary, 30 October-31 December 1957, no. 70.

Literature:

City of York Art Gallery, Catalogue of Paintings: Foreign Schools 1350-1800, York, 1961, I, p. 73, under no. 837. G.T. Faggin, La Pittura ad Anversa nel Cinquecento, Florence, 1968, p. 41. A. Humphreys, Preview 88 (City of York Art Gallery Quarterly), XXII, October 1969, pp. 804-805, illustrated. L. Serck, Herri Met de Bles, PhD Thesis, Louvain Catholic University, 1971, pp. 39, 58-59, 77-83, 100 and 120. W.S. Gibson, 'Mirror of the Earth': The World Landscape in Sixteenth-Century Flemish Painting, Princeton, 1989, p. 103 , note 145.

Provenance:

Admiral Sir Lionel Preston (1875-1971), Dunstable, by 1957. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 4 April 1962, lot 48 (2,200 gns. to Crawley). with Hal O'Nians, London. Roger Van de Maele (1921-2014), Courtrai. Anonymous sale [Property of a Gentleman]; Sotheby's, London, 3 July 1985, lot 30, where incorrectly described as on copper. Anonymous sale [Property of a Private Collector]; Christie's, New York, 31 May 1990, lot 84, where acquired by the present owner.