After SIMON WYNOUTS FRISIUS

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After SIMON WYNOUTS FRISIUS

The Virgin Annunciate

oil on panel
11¼ x 8¾in. (27.5 x 21.5cm.)

Provenance
Anon. Sale, Christie's, 14 Dec. 1984, lot 33 (as 'C. Engelbrechtsz', #1,000).

Lot Essay

After the figure of Mary in Simon Wynouts Frisius's 1522 etching of The Saviour and the Virgin (Hollstein, VII, p. 35, no. 194), which is itself inspired by Lucas van Leyden's undated woodcut of The Virgin with the Rosary (Hollstein, X, p. 219, no. 35).

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