Brussels School, circa 1500

Anonymous sale, Troyes, Boisseau-Pomez, 8 July 2023, lot 577 (as Circle of Goswin van der Weyden);

Where acquired.

Dating to circa 1500, this gold-ground panel is notable for the distinctive gilt foliate ornament comprising its background. Sometimes attributed to the "Master of the Gold Brocade," the present work and other similar examples were likely produced in several Brussels workshops circa 1490-1540. Images such as this of the "Maria lactans," wherein the Virgin is pictured nursing the infant Christ, proliferated in the final decades of the fifteenth century, evolving from Rogier van der Weyden's example of Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin, today in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (inv. no. 93.153). The present panel perhaps derives from the circle of Goswin van der Weyden, Rogier's grandson, who's known oeuvre is limited but led a large workshop and is often associated with this specific type.