Attributed to Jacob Grimmer (Antwerp 1525/6-before 1590) and
Attributed to Gillis Mostaert (Hulst c. 1528/9-1598 Antwerp)
Attributed to Jacob Grimmer (Antwerp 1525/6-before 1590) and Attributed to Gillis Mostaert (Hulst c. 1528/9-1598 Antwerp)

A winter landscape with the Massacre of the Innocents

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Attributed to Jacob Grimmer (Antwerp 1525/6-before 1590) and
Attributed to Gillis Mostaert (Hulst c. 1528/9-1598 Antwerp)
A winter landscape with the Massacre of the Innocents
oil on panel
28½ x 41½ in. (72.4 x 105.4 cm.)
Provenance
Sir Hugh Dayson, Bt.
Jonkheer Teixeira de Mattos.
(Possibly) Madame J. Teixeira de Mattos; Muller, Amsterdam, 28 November-1 December 1916.
Anonymous sale; Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 6 March or 4-6 April 1954, lot 80, illustrated.
Anonymous sale; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 18 November 1954, lot 305.
Anonymous sale; Rome, 20 June 1955.
Private collection, France.
Anonymous sale; Neret-Minet, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 20 November 1987.
Anonymous sale; Tajan, Paris, 17 December 1997, lot 347, as 'Jacob Grimmer', 'Les personnages très probablement de la main de Gillis Mostaert', where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
E. Greindl, Monographie de Jacob Grimmer, Vienna, 1972, no. 59, as 'Jacob Grimmer'.
R. de Bertier de Sauvigny, Jacob et Abel Grimmer: Catalogue Raisonné, Belgium, 1991, pp. 125-6, no. 9, as having been certified by M.J. Friedländer, 'qui le qualifie d'oeuvre important de Jacob'.

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