Aert Claesz., called Aertgen van Leyden (1498-1564)

The Adoration of the Shepherds

細節

Aert Claesz., called Aertgen van Leyden (1498-1564)
The Adoration of the Shepherds
with inscription 'Aertgen van Leyden' (recto) and 'van Aertgen' and another illegible inscription (verso)
black chalk on light brown paper, pen and brown ink framing lines, fragmentary watermark calipers
95/8 x 7½ in. (248 x 191 mm.)

來源

Jacob de Vos (cf. L. 1450), according to an inscription 'De la Collection de Mr. Jacob de Vos Mbre. de l'Instt. & de l'Acie. Rle. des Arts à Amsterdam mt. 1833 Plus tard á Mr. H.A.Kr Conservateur au Musée d'Amstm. Aart Klauszoon. dit Aartze van Leyden né à Leyden in 1498 mt 1564.' on the mount.
An unidentified collector's stamp 'FDGM' (not in Lugt), and number '46'.

出版

C. von Prybram-Gladona, Unbekannte Zeichnungen alter Meister aus europäischem Privatbesitz, Munich, 1969, no. 92, illustrated.

拍品專文

By the same hand as a drawing from Franz Koenigs's Collection in the Boymans-van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, reproduced by P. Wescher in 'Höllandische Zeichner zur Zeit des Lucas van Leiden', Oud Holland, 1928, XLV, p. 246, fig. 1. P. Wescher grouped that drawing along with others of similar technique around an artist he named Master of the Apostles' Miracles. Other drawings he attributed to this artist are in the Louvre (F. Lugt, Maîtres des anciens Pays-Bas, nés avant 1550, Paris, 1968, nos. 98, 101), in Brunswick and in the British Museum.
Eleven years later J.Q. van Regteren Altena published a large article in Oud Holland on Aertgen van Leyden where he gave the drawings attributed by Wescher to the Master of the Apostles' Miracles and the Master of 1527 (see previous lot) to Aertgen van Leyden.
This attribution seems to be confirmed by the early inscription on the present drawing.