LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

22.83 in. (58.00 cm.) (height) by 46.69 in. (118.60 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Laren, Singer Museum, Modernen van Toen, 1963, no. 98.

Literature:

G.T. Faggin, La Pittura ad Anversa, 1969, pp. 82, 215 and 316, illustrated, with the mention of a reproduction in The Burlington Magazine, as ‘Attributed to Cornelis Matsys, and with the top edge still intact’. R. de Bertier de Sauvigny, Jacob et Abel Grimmer. Catalogue Raisonne, Brussels, 1991, pp. 124-5, no. 4, as signed with monogram ‘GM’. E. Mai (ed.), Gillis Mostaert (1528-1598). Ein Antwerper Maler zur Zeit der Bruegel-Dynastie, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum and Antwerp, Museum Mayer van den Bergh, 2005, p. 142, no. 6, as signed with monogram.

Provenance:

with P. de Boer, Amsterdam. J. de Bousies, Brussels; Charpentier, Paris, 24 March 1953, lot 23. In the collection of the family of the present owner since at least 1963.