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    Sale 2313

    Old Master Pictures

    Amsterdam

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    11 November 1996

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    Lot 64

    Follower of Pieter Aertsen

    The Last Supper

    Price realised

    NLG 11,532

    Estimate

    NLG 8,000 - NLG 12,000

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    Follower of Pieter Aertsen
    The Last Supper
    oil on panel
    89.8 x 124 cm

    Provenance

    Anon. Sale, Mak van Waay Amsterdam, 25 July 1944, lot 1, with ill., as School of Pieter Aertsen

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    Lot Essay

    Peter van den Brink of the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen has kindly informed us (oral information) that, as infra-red reflectography reveals no underdrawing, the present lot must derive from an unknown prototype, that may be a lost original by Pieter Aertsen

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