Lot Closed
July 29, 12:08 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
SOUTHERN NETHERLANDISH SCHOOL, LATE 15TH CENTURY
THE VIRGIN AND CHILD SURROUNDED BY ANGELS
oil and gold on panel
unframed: 46.5 x 32.9 cm.; 18⅜ x 13 in.
framed: 53.9 x 39.5 cm.; 21¼ x 15⅝ in.
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With Fritz Steinmeyer, Lucerne, 1920;
Private collection, Bavaria;
Anony🐠mous sale, Cologne, Lempertz, 15 November🅺 2014, lot 1017 (as Flemish School, probably 16th century), where acquired.
Although listed on the RKD website as a late 15th- or early 16th-century copy after Rogier van der Weyden,1 the present painting does not actually appear to be directly based on a known composition by the artist, but rather is loosely based on a Virgin and Child type.2
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2 M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, vol. II, Leyden 1967, pp. 83-84, cat. nos 108a–n, re♚produced pl. 121💛.