Lot 59
  • 59

Netherlandish School circa 1540

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Netherlandish School
  • Saint John on Patmos
  • oil on panel
  • 23 1/2 by 19 in.
  • 59.7 by 49.5 cm.

Provenance

Ramón de Aras Jauregui;
With Newhouse Galleries, New York (as by Cornelis van Cleve);
Earl Spring, Wichita Falls, Texas.

Condition

Cradled panel. Panel under a very glossy, yellow varnish. A vertical hairline crack in the right half but barely noticeable. Under UV light: masking varnish; a small spot of inpainting on the figure's neck and a few others on his red mantle.
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Catalogue Note

The composition of this painting relates to a work by Joos van Cleeve in the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor (see J.O. Hand, Joos van Cleve, The Complete Paintings, New Haven and London 2004, p. 147 cat. no. 56, reproduced, fig. 83).