Circle of Frans Floris I (Antwerp 1519-1570)

The Good Samaritan (recto); Study of the wounded man's head (verso)

Details

Circle of Frans Floris I (Antwerp 1519-1570)
The Good Samaritan (recto); Study of the wounded man's head (verso)
with number '21' (verso)
pen and brown ink, heightened with white (oxidized), on brown prepared paper, an added strip of paper at right, brown ink framing lines (recto); black chalk (verso), watermark crest with name Pinette
25.6 x 22.6 cm.

Exhibited

Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Paris, Fondation Custodia, and Brussels, Bibliothèque Albert 1er, Le Cabinet d'un Amateur: Dessins flamands et hollandais des XVIe et XVIIe siècles d'une collection privée d'Amsterdam, 1976-77, no. 52, pl. 8 (as Frans Floris (?); catalogue by J. Giltaij).

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Lot Essay

In a letter dated 23 May 1969 to I.Q. van Regteren Altena, Carl van de Velde wrote that although the drawing is close in style to Frans Floris I he did not accept it as by him. An alternative attribution to the Master of the Prodigal Son (active 1530-1560) has been suggested.

We are grateful to Dr. Frans Laurentius for informing us that the paper dates from 1560-70.

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