Cornelis Engelbrechtsz.* (1468-1533)

The Crucifixion with Saints Peter, Gregory, Lawrence and Francis of Assisi, the Madonna supported by Saint John the Evangelist, Saints Barbara, Catherine of Alexandria and another Saint, with Saint Mary Magdalen at the foot of the Cross

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Cornelis Engelbrechtsz.* (1468-1533)
The Crucifixion with Saints Peter, Gregory, Lawrence and Francis of Assisi, the Madonna supported by Saint John the Evangelist, Saints Barbara, Catherine of Alexandria and another Saint, with Saint Mary Magdalen at the foot of the Cross
oil on panel
8 x 11in. (20.3 x 28.6cm.)

Provenance

Franzisca von Clav-Bouhaben, Cologne; her sale, Heberle, Cologne, June 4, 1894, lot 83 as Flemish School.
Richard von Kaufmann, Berlin, 1901; his sale, Cassirer, Berlin, Dec. 4-5 (=1st day), 1917, lot 116
with G. Nebehay, Berlin.
Anon. Sale, Sotheby's, Amsterdam, Nov. 17, 1993, lot 78 (DFL76,000=$39,000).

Literature

Onze Kunst, V, 1906, no. 8, pl. 36.
W. Gibson, The Paintings of C. Engelbrechtsz., 1969, p. 265, no. 84, where given as 'probably a workshop piece of fairly high quality'.
M.J. Friedlnder, Early Netherlandish Paintings, ed. H. Pauwels, 1973, X, p. 79, no. 92, pl. 73.

Lot Essay

Max Friedlnder, who saw the present painting when it was with Nebehay in Berlin, compares it to a Crucifixion in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (Inv. no. A859, op. cit., pl. 72). W. Gibson, in his doctoral dissertation, considered it to be a workshop piece, having only seen the painting in a photograph.