Circle of JAN GOSSAERT, called MABUSE (1470/80-1533)

Details

Circle of JAN GOSSAERT, called MABUSE (1470/80-1533)

The Madonna and Child before a Parapet, with a vase of Lilies by the Columns of a building, a landscape beyond

oil on panel
50 x 41¼in. (127 x 104.8cm.)

Provenance

The Rev. Dr. Warre
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, July 3-4, lot 127, as Mabuse
The Duke of Devonshire; his sale, Sotheby's, London, *** 1942, lot 20 (as Mabuse), where purchased by Jose Joaquim de Lima e Silva Moniz de Arago, Brazilian Ambassador to the Court of St. James, 1942-1952, and by descent to the present owner

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition, 1907, no. 2

Lot Essay

At least two other versions, without the background landscape, are known (M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, VIII, ed. H. Pauwels, Leyden, 1972, p. 95, no. 38, and pl. 36). Friedländer further notes that a great many copies of the composition exist