Moses being nursed by his mother

Details

Frans Floris (Antwerp 1516-1570)
Moses being nursed by his mother
oil on panel
38 x 35 in. (97 x 90 cm.)

Provenance

Batonnier Nathan, Marseilles.

Literature

C. van de Velde, Frans Floris (1519/20-1570): leven en werken, 1975, I, p. 252, cited under no. 109.

Exhibited

Ghent, Muse des Beaux-Arts, Charles-Quint et son temps, 3 April-30 June 1955, p. 120, no. 44.
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Le Triomphe du manirisme europen, 1 July-16 October 1955, p. 66, no. 51 (Dutch edn., p. 62, no. 51).

Lot Essay

These figures derive from Floris' large altarpiece for the Church of Saint James, Antwerp (see M.J. Friedlander, Early Netherlandish Paintings: Antonis Mor and His Contemporaries, XIII, 1975, pl. 71, no. 132). According to van de Velde (op. cit., no. 109), that altarpiece is a copy of the lost original.

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