Follower of Rogier van der Weyden

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 GBP

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Description

a male and female donor
oil on panel

Provenance

Pryor's Bank sale, London, Christie's, 11 May 1894, lot 50 (as 'Van Eyck'), for £42 to W.G. Alexander;
Thence by descent.

Literature

W.H. James Weale and M.W Brockwell, The Van Eycks and their art, London 1912, p. 275, appendix B.

Catalogue Note

This painting was formerly attributed to Jan van Eyck. The original function of this panel is unclear: it may have originally formed one side of a diptych, or perhaps more plausibly represents a fragment or part of a triptych.