Pieter Huys* (active 1545-1571)

Details
Pieter Huys* (active 1545-1571)

The Temptation of Saint Anthony

oil on panel
22¼ x 17¼in. (56.5 x 43.8cm.)
Provenance
with Durlacher Brothers, New York, from whom acquired in 1940 by
The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, for the Sumner Collection.
Literature
A.E. Austin, Jr., The New Purchases at Hartford, Art News, XXIX, Nov. 16, 1940, p. 7.
News from Belgium, V, no. 43, Dec. 29, 1945, illustrated as Frans Huys.
Wadsworth Atheneum, Wadsworth Atheneum Paintings. Catalogue I. The Netherlands and German-Speaking Countries. 15th to 19th Centuries, 1978, p. 112, no. 3, pl. 9 as Antwerp Anonymous.