LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

9.76 in. (24.80 cm.) (height) by 27.01 in. (68.60 cm.) (width)

Markings:

inscribed 'GREGORIV' (centre left, on the altar cloth); with the inventory stamp of a crown over a 'V'[?] and inventory no. 224 (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Tentoonstelling van oude Kunst door de Vereeniging van Handelaren in Oude Kunst in Nederland, 1929, no. 29. Zurich, Kunsthaus Zurich, Tafelbilder des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts: Schweiz, Deutschland, Niederlande, May-July 1934, no. 97. Rotterdam, Museum Boymans, Jeroen Bosch, van Geertgen tot Scorel: Noord-Nederlandsce primitieven, 10 July-15 October 1936, no. 97. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Middeleeuwse kunst der Noordelijke Nederlanden, 28 June-28 September 1958, no. 101.

Literature:

P. Wescher, in Pantheon, 2, 1928, pp. 610-11. K. Steinbart, 'Nachlese im Werke des Jacob Cornelisz', Maarburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft, 5, 1929, p. 217, fig. 6, as datable to c. 1505. M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, XII, Leiden, 1975, p. 118, no. 281, pl. 149, as datable to c. 1512. J.L. Carroll, The paintings of Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen, diss., North Carolina University, 1987, pp. 217-20, no. 22, fig. 488, as datable to c. 1513.

Provenance:

In an English 19th century collection. Rosenbaum, 1923, by whom sold to the following. with Paul Cassirer & Co., Amsterdam, 1929, where probably acquired by. von Hessen-Barchfeld, by 1929. Philipp, Landgrave von Hessen, by 1934. Private collection, Zurich, 1935-1958. Alfred Hausammann, Zurich, and by descent to the present owners.