Master Paintings Part I

Master Paintings Part I

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 319. People at the Bank of the Jordan River, Possibly Onlookers to the Baptism of Christ.

Property from a Connecticut Collection (Lots 315-321)

Jan van Scorel and Workshop

People at the Bank of the Jordan River, Possibly Onlookers to the Baptism of Christ

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Connecticut Collection (Lots 315-321)

Jan van Scorel and Workshop

Schoorl 1495 - 1562 Utrecht

Along the Banks of the Jordan River, Possibly the Baptism of Christ


oil on panel

panel: 33 ⅛ by 27 in.; 84.1 by 68.6 cm

framed: 39 by 32 ½ in.; 99.1 by 80 cm

Private collection, Spain, during the early 19th century;

With Johnny van Haeften, London, by 2005;

From whom acquired by the present collector, 2007.

A. Wallert and A. van Oosterwijk, "Two Paintings or One? The Baptism of Christ by Jan van Scorel," in The Quest for the Original, H. Verougstraete and C. Janssens de Bisthoven (eds.), Leuven 2009, pp. 128-134, reproduced (as Workshop of Scorel);

M. Faries, "Workshop of Jan van Scorel, The Baptism of Christ, c. 1535," in Early Netherlandish Paintings, Rijksmuseum online collection catalogue, J.P. Filedt Kok and M. Ubl (eds.), Amsterdam 2010, reproduced (as Scorel and Workshop).