Lot 68
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FOLLOWER OF JAN GOSSAERT, CALLED MABUSE
FOLLOWER OF JAN GOSSAERT, CALLED MABUSE
FOLLOWER OF JAN GOSSAERT, CALLED MABUSE
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FOLLOWER OF JAN GOSSAERT, CALLED MABUSE

The Virgin and Child in a landscape

Details
FOLLOWER OF JAN GOSSAERT, CALLED MABUSE
The Virgin and Child in a landscape
oil on panel
28 ¾ x 20 7⁄8 in. (73 x 53.1 cm.)
Provenance
James Geoffrey Hart (1896-1946) and Dorothy Irene Hart, née Joskavitsch (c.1906-1987), Wych Cross Place, Sussex and 9 Hyde Park Gardens, London.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 31 May 1989, lot 42, as 'Attributed to Pieter Coecke van Aelst'.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 12 June 1990, lot 57, where acquired by the present owner.
Exhibited
Worthing, Worthing Art Gallery, Dutch and Flemish Paintings from the Collection of Mrs. Geoffrey Hart, 19 July-30 August 1952, no. 23, as 'Jan Gossaert'.
Brighton, Brighton Art Gallery, Paintings and Furniture from the Collection of Mrs. Geoffrey Hart, 1956, no. 23, as 'Jan Gossaert'.

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Lot Essay

The composition derives from a lost painting by Jan Gossaert, the so-called ‘Madonna with the Entangled Child’ (see M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, VIII: Jan Gossart and Bernart van Orley, New York and Washington, 1972, p. 95, no. 38).

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