Lot 58 A
58 A
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The Head of Saint John the Baptist

Details
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The Head of Saint John the Baptist
with monogram 'A:[B]' (lower centre)
oil on gold ground panel
11 5/8 in. (29.4 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Collection Koninckx, Antwerp; Sale, 1921, no. 122.
South-West German collection.
Literature
M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, vol. III, Berlin, 1968, p. 69, no. 68.b.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

According to Friedländer, the present picture is closest to that in the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, England, which, in turn, Friedländer considered to be a replica with slight differences and not as characteristic of the Master as that in the Landesmuseum, Oldenburg (inv. no. 270), generally considered to be the prime version (op. cit., p. 69).

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