LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

35.71 in. (90.70 cm.) (height) by 46.61 in. (118.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

inscribed 'Expecta Dominum viriliter age et / confortetur cor tuum et sustine Dominu / Psalmo xxvi' (upper right, on the banderole); and inscribed 'Domine quid multiplicati sunt qui tribulant me / multi insurgunt adversum me Psalmo ij' (centre, on the banderole)

Exhibited:

Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Un cabinet d'amateur, 27 June- 23 July 1937, no. 10.

Literature:

P. Lafond, Hieronymus Bosch, son art, son influence, ses disciples, Brussels and Paris, 1914, p. 71, as 'after Bosch'. G. Unverfehrt, Hieronymus Bosch: Die Rezeption seiner Kunst im frühen 16. Jahrhundert, Berlin, 1980, p. 287, no. 151, fig. 217, as 'Antwerp, 1530/40'.

Provenance:

Cels collection, Uccle-les-Bruxelles. Baron Joly, Brussels. M.W. Frilling, Brussels; Giroux, Brussels, 1-2 March 1957, lot 271. Acquired by the father of the present owner.