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Property from a Distinguished Spanish Private Collection

Herri met de Bles

Landscape with Saint Jerome

Lot Closed

July 7, 01:02 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Spanish Private Collection


Herri met de Bles

Bouvines circa 1510 - after 1550 Antwerp (?)

Landscape with Saint Jerome


oil on oak panel

unframed: 27.5 x 37 cm.; 10⅞ x 14½ in.

framed: 41.5 x 51 cm.; 16¼ x 20 in.

Count Bulow, Hamburg;
Ramon Villalta de Berenguer;
A. Warmuth, Hamburg;
Anonymous sale (‘The Property of a Gentleman’), London, Sotheby’s, 10 December 1980, lot 23;
Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Christie’s, 8 November, 1999, lot 115;
With Galerie de Jonckheere, Paris;
Probably from whom acquired by the father of the present owners.
L. Serck, ‘‘Isaac bénissant Jacob’, un paysage de Henri Bles au Musée d’Innsbruck’, in Kunsthistorisches Jaarbuch Graz, 1982, p. 186, plate LXI;
L. Serck, Henri Bles et la peinture de paysage dans les pays-bas méridionaux avant Bruegel, 1990, pp. 300, 1027–28;
J. Toussaint, Autour de Henri Bles, exh. cat., Namur 2000, p. 234, no. 39, reproduced p. 235.
Namur, Musée des Arts Anciens du Namurois, Autour de Henri Bles, 13 May – 1 November 2000, no. 39.