The Virgin and Child
Lot Closed
December 9, 02:12 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Follower of Bernard van Orley
The Virgin and Child
oil on copper
unframed: 26.8 x 21.5 cm.; 10½ x 8½ in.
framed: 57.2 x 51.5 cm.; 22½ x 20¼ in.
The design of this 16th-century painting (its age confirmed by pigment analysis) derives from one assumed to originate with Bernard van Orley (1487–1541). An old version, deemed by Friedländer to be a copy after Van Orley, shows the figures in reverse, with the Child standing on a step, and different blooms in the glass vase. Other versions in the same orientation as the present painting, though also with different flowers and vases, include the works on copper of similar dimensions sold at Nagel, Stuttgart, 23 March 2001, lot 810,2 and at the Dorotheum, Vienna, 21 April 2015, lot 19 (for €66,462).3
1 M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, vol. VIII, Jan Gossart and Bernart van Orley, Leiden and Brussels 1972, p. 110, no. 137a, reproduc🎶ed pl. 118.
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