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Lot Essay
We are grateful to Dr. Luc Serck for suggesting the attribution on the basis of photographs (private communication, 24 November 2023), noting that the figures are by another hand in the style of Jan van Hemessen. The prime version of this composition is in the Milwaukee Art Museum and has also been attributed to the Master of the Liège Disciples at Emmaus by Dr. Serck.
This anonymous master is named after a Wooded landscape with the Road to Emmaus in the Musée d'Art religieux et d'Art mosan, Liège (oil on oak panel, 29 x 40 cm.; inv. no. A.43). His corpus also includes a Landscape with scenes from the life of Saint Christopher in the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp (inv. no. 849) and the Preaching of Saint John the Baptist in the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille (inv. no. P.762; see A. Tapié and M. Weemans, eds., Fables du paysage flamand: Bosch, Bles, Brueghel, Bril, exhibition catalogue, Lille, 2012, pp. 168-9, and 244-5, nos. 22 and 61). In his catalogue entry for the Landscape with scenes from the life of Saint Christopher (ibid., no. 22), Serck argues that the Master's identity is the same as that of the so-called Master of the Preaching of Lille, whose name piece is the aforementioned Lille picture (ibid., no. 61, given to Lucas van Valckenborch in the catalogue). A list of the proposed corpus of this Master is appended to the entry for the Wooded landscape with the Road to Emmaus in the exhibition Autour de Henri Bles (L. Serck, in J. Toussaint, ed., exhibition catalogue, Musée des Arts Anciens du Namurois, 13 May-1 November 2000, pp. 250-5, nos. 46 and 47).
Serck argues, in both the 2000 and the 2012 exhibition catalogues, that the Master can be identified with none other than the elusive Jan van Amstel (Amsterdam c. 1500-c. 1542 Antwerp).
This anonymous master is named after a Wooded landscape with the Road to Emmaus in the Musée d'Art religieux et d'Art mosan, Liège (oil on oak panel, 29 x 40 cm.; inv. no. A.43). His corpus also includes a Landscape with scenes from the life of Saint Christopher in the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp (inv. no. 849) and the Preaching of Saint John the Baptist in the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille (inv. no. P.762; see A. Tapié and M. Weemans, eds., Fables du paysage flamand: Bosch, Bles, Brueghel, Bril, exhibition catalogue, Lille, 2012, pp. 168-9, and 244-5, nos. 22 and 61). In his catalogue entry for the Landscape with scenes from the life of Saint Christopher (ibid., no. 22), Serck argues that the Master's identity is the same as that of the so-called Master of the Preaching of Lille, whose name piece is the aforementioned Lille picture (ibid., no. 61, given to Lucas van Valckenborch in the catalogue). A list of the proposed corpus of this Master is appended to the entry for the Wooded landscape with the Road to Emmaus in the exhibition Autour de Henri Bles (L. Serck, in J. Toussaint, ed., exhibition catalogue, Musée des Arts Anciens du Namurois, 13 May-1 November 2000, pp. 250-5, nos. 46 and 47).
Serck argues, in both the 2000 and the 2012 exhibition catalogues, that the Master can be identified with none other than the elusive Jan van Amstel (Amsterdam c. 1500-c. 1542 Antwerp).