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, for $90,000, where acquired by the present owner.