Property from a Private American Collection
A triptych: the Virgin of Sorrows and kneeling donor♔ figures
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December 4, 07:09 PM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 GBP
Lot Details
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Property from a Private American Collection
Pieter Claeissens the Elder
1499/1500–1576 Bruges
A triptych: the Virgin of Sorrows and kneeling donor figures
dated lower centre on the central panel's original frame: 1564;
inscribed lower centre on the left wing's original frame: AETATIS SVE 50;
inscribed lower centre on the right wing's original frame: AETATIS SVÆ 49
oil on oak panel
central panel: 79.1 x 58.4 cm.; 31⅛ x 23 in.
each wing: 79.2 x 29.2 cm.; 31¼ x 11½ in.
(as a triptych):
Edouard Lucas-Moreno, Paris (as Antonis Mor);
On commission wit🃏h Galerie Heinemann, Munich, Januarꦫy 1911 (as Luis de Vargas);
Thereafter r🦂eturned to Edouard Lucas-Moreno, Paris, February 1911;
Pierre Verrier de Nice and R.-A. de Villepreux;
Their sal🌺e, Brussels, Galerie J. Fievez, 8 December 1924, lot 128 (as Antonis Mor).
(central panel):
Al💖berto J. Pani (1878–1955), Mexico City, by 1940 (inv. no. 15);
His sale, New York, Kende Galleries, 1💮7 December 1942, lot 29 (as Pieter de Kempeneer, called Pedro de Campana);
Anony𓆉mous sale, New York, Christie’s East, 5 Novembe꧒r 1982, lot 36 (as Peter de Kempeneer);
Where acquired by the present collectors.
(wings):
Frank D. Frazier;
By whose Estate sold ('Property of the Estate of the late Frank D. Frazier'), New York, American Art Association, 4 March 1937, lot 42 (as School of Cologne, 16th century), to E.A. Block;
With Carl Schneider, Frankfurt;
From whom acq🅷uired by P.A. Muller, 1962 (as Joos van Cleve);
Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Christie’s, 23 June 20𓆏15, lot 136 (as Attributed to Pieter Pourbus);
Where acquired by the present collectors.
A.L. Mayer, Galerie Heinemann, Altspanische Ausstellung Januar 1911, exh. cat., Muni𓃲ch 1911, pp. 5 and 95, no. 50, reproduced (as Luis de Varg💮as);
Cicerone,꧙ January 1911, reproduced fig. 3 (as Antonio de Alfian);
A.J. Pani, La Segunda Coleccion Pani de Pinturas, Catalogo Descriptivo y Comentado, Mexico 1940, no. 15;
T.H. Borchert, in Forgotten Masters: Pieter Pourbus and Bruges Painting from 1525 to 1625, exh. 🏅🧜cat., A. van Oosterwijk (ed.), Bruges 2017, pp. 167–68, no. 17, reproduced.
Balboa Park, San Diego Museum of Art, long꧃-term loan;
Bruges, Groeningemuseum Museum, Forgotten Masters: Pieter Pourbus and Bruges Painting from 1525 to 1625, 13 October 2017 – 21 January 2018, no. 17;
San Diego, Timken Museum of Art, long-term loan.