Flemish School, late 16th Century

A River Landscape with the Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian

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Flemish School, late 16th Century
A River Landscape with the Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian
pen and brown ink
159 x 244 mm.; and 'January', etching by Jan van de Velde II (Holl. [XXXIII] 34). (2)

Provenance

(1) E.J. Otto (L. 873b); Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 9 April 1970, lot 66 (Nlg. 120).

Lot Essay

(1) A similar landscape dated 1553 by an anonymous hand is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, H.G. Franz, Niederländische Landschaftsmalerei im Zeitalter des Manierismus, Graz, 1969, II, p. 100, fig. 187. An attribution to Lucas Gassel has also been suggested.

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