Studio of Gillis Mostaert

Christ on the road to Calvary

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July 7, 01:07 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Belgian Private Collection

Studio of Gillis Mostaert

Hulst circa 1528/9 - 1598 Antwerp

Christ on the road to Calvary

oil on panel

unframed: 55.8 x 74 cm.; 22 x 29⅛ in.

framed: 73.4 x 91.8 cm.; 28⅞ x 36⅛ in.

Anonymous sale, Brussels[?], Le Roy, 2 September[?] 1885, lot 7 (as Frans Francken);
Where acquired by M. le Dr. Pintiaux, Schaerbeek, Belgium;
By whom gifted to M. le Notaire Max Ectors, Brussels (all of the above according to an old handwritten label on the reverse);
Anonymous sale, Brussels, S. A. Servarts N.V., 12 November 1991, lot 325 (as
Gillis Mostaert the Elder);
There acquired by the present owner.

The present composition appears in two other versions by Mostaert: one, with a grisaille painted frame, currently on loan to the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne; and the other sold at Sotheby's, New York, on 4 December 2013, lot 30.¹

¹Oil on panel, 56.5 x 75 cm., reproduced in E. Mai (ed.), Gillis Mostaert (1528–1598). Ein Antwerpener Maler zur Zeit der Bruegel-Dynastie, Wolfratshausen 2005, pp. 32, 36, reproduced fig. 18; oil on panel, 56.2 x 74.2 cm., https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2013/old-master-british-paintings-evening-l13036/lot.30.html