LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on oak panel

Measurements:

31.97 in. (81.20 cm.) (height) by 25.24 in. (64.10 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Lexington, Kentucky, Wahsington and Lee University, 1950-1953, on loan.New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Saints and Their Legends, 1 March-6 June 1974.

Literature:

W.H.J. Weale, 'Netherlandish Art at the Guildhall', Burlington Magazine, IX, 1906, p. 240, as Quentin Massys.Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, XVII, 1922, p. 162, as a follower of Massys.H.B. Wehle and M. Salinger, A catalogue of Early Flemish, Dutch and German Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1947, pp. 110-111, as a follower of Massys.E. Larsen, Les Primitifs Flamands au Metropolitan Museum, Utrecht, 1960, p. 86, as school of Massys.G. Marlier, Pierre Coeck d'Alost, Brussels, 1966, p. 254, as very similar to the work in a private collection in Turin.

Provenance:

John Henry Abegg, Geneva; sold on behalf of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Christie's, New York, 11 January 1989, lot 171 ($60,500), where acquired by the family of the present owner.