CIRCLE OF JAN GOSSAERT (MAUBEUGE 1478-1532 MIDDELBURG?)

The Adoration of the Magi

Details

CIRCLE OF JAN GOSSAERT (MAUBEUGE 1478-1532 MIDDELBURG?)
The Adoration of the Magi
black chalk, pen and brown ink
10 1/4 x 8 in. (27 x 22 cm)

Provenance

with Galerie Paul Prouté, Paris
with Bernard Houthakker Gallery (Amsterdam, Master Drawings exhibited by Bernard Houthakker, 1968, no. 38, ill.).

Literature

P. Fuhring, Design into Art. Drawings for Architecture and Ornament. The Lodewijk Houthakker Collection, London, 1989, II, no. 1098, ill. (as Bernard van Orley).

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Lot Essay

In subject and style, this drawing can be compared to a drawing, also depicting the Adoration of the Magi, probably by the great Netherlandish painter Gossaert but retouched by a later hand, and dated to the later 1510s, in the Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (inv. 1975.1.832; see S. Alsteens in Man, Myth, and Sensual Pleasures. Jan Gossart’s Renaissance. The Complete Works, New York, New Haven and London 2010, no. 76, ill.).

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