School of JAN VAN EYCK (c. 1368-1441)

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School of JAN VAN EYCK (c. 1368-1441)

A Triptych: Christ as Salvator Mundi, the wings inscribed with a Hymm to Saint Veronica

oil on panel
center panel 17 x 11¼in. (43.2 x 28.6cm.); wings 17 x 4½in. (43.2 x 11.4cm.)
Provenance
Count Brockdorff-Rantzau
Dr. Hans Wetzlar, Amsterdam; his sale, Sotheby's, Amsterdam, June 9, 1977, lot 35, as follower of van Eyck (44,000 florins), where purchased by the present owner
Literature
M.J. Friedländer, Collection of Dr. H. Wetzlar, 1952, p. 4 and 12, no. 29, illustrated, as by Jan van Eyck and studio
Exhibited
Delft, Prinsenhof Museum, Prisma der Bijbelse Kunst, May 17-Aug. 12, 1952, no. 231, illustrated, as van Eyck
Laren, Singer Museum, Nederlandse Primitieven, July 1-Sept. 10, 1961, no. 36, pl. 14 (without the wings), as Jan van Eyck (lent by Dr. Hans Wetzlar)

Lot Essay

Friedländer notes that in the simulated inscription on the border of Christ's robe are the letters 'AGLA' which also appear on Jan van Dyck's Ghent altarpiece and other paintings. There is a signed picture by van Dyck, dated 1438, in the Staatliche Museen, Berlin. Numerous replicas are known