The Virgin and Child

Details

Adam van Noort (Antwerp 1561-?1641)
The Virgin and Child
oil on panel
31 5/8 x 22 ½ in. (80.3 x 57.2 cm.)

Provenance

with Jacques Goudstikker (1897-1940), Amsterdam (according to a label and seal on the reverse).
Acquired by a private collector prior to 1929, and by descent to
Cecile Kahn; (†), Sotheby’s, New York, 11 January 1996, lot 191.

Lot Essay

Adam van Noort is best known as a portraitist and a painter of history paintings. He opened his studio in Antwerp in 1587 and counted Sir Peter Paul Rubens and Jacob Jordaens among his most illustrious pupils.

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