Atelier de Jan de Beer

Bradbury Collection (selon le catalogue de la vente Oppenheimer) ;
Collection Henry Oppenheimer, Londres
Sa vente, Christie's Londres, Old Master Drawings formed by the late Henry Oppenheimer, 10-14 juillet 1936, partie du n°266

M. J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, vol. XI, Berlin 1933, p. 25, sous le n°9 ; éd. Leyde/Bruxelles, 1974, p. 19, sous le n°9 ;
D. Ewing, The Paintings and Drawings of Jan de Beer, Thèse de l'Université du Michigan, 1978, vol. 2, p. 269, cat. n° 15a;
ExtravagAnt! Antwerp pictures for the European market 1500-1525, cat. exp. Anvers, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, et Maastricht, Bonnefanten Museum, 2005-6, pp. 100-101, nn. 9-11, cat. 32, fig. 2;
D. Ewing, Jan de Beer, Gothic Renewal in Renaissance Antwerp, Doornspijk 2016, pp. 95, 337, cat. n° 36.1

Remains of old backing stuck to verso, around the outside edge. Slight losses in margin, left centre and top, towards right. Some surface abrasion towards edges, especially on right. Light brown stain towards lower left. Otherwise reasonably good and fresh. Sold in a modern frame. On distingue des traces de l'ancien montage au verso sur les bords du dessin. Légers manques sur tous les bords au bord gauche vers le centre et en haut du bord gauche, et vers la droite Quelques usures de surface sur les bords, surtout sur le bord droit. Il y a une légère tache brune vers le bas à gauche. Le dessin reste sinon relativement en bon état avec un médium assez frais. Vendu dans un cadre moderne
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As Dan Ewing has described, this drawing is an exact copy, in the same media, of an important design for a stained glass roundel, by the Antwerp artist Jan de Beer; the original drawing is now in the collection of the Muséé Wicar, Lille.  Ewing suggests that the present, traced version may well have been made in De Beer's studio, as part of the process of transferring the design to the glass roundel.