Live Auction 7633Old Master & British Pictures (Day Sale)
Circle of Bernard van Orley (Brussels c. 1488-1541)
Lot 122

Circle of Bernard van Orley (Brussels c. 1488-1541)

The Sacrifice of Isaac

Closed3 December 2008

Price Realised

GBP 25,000

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Circle of Bernard van Orley (Brussels c. 1488-1541)
The Sacrifice of Isaac
inscribed 'IN DVMO·CADITVR·ARIES·QVI·CORNUU'·HEBET' (lower centre) and 'ISAC FILIUS ABRAHAM' (on Isaac's collar)
oil on panel, lozenge
17 x 17¾ in. (43.2 x 45.1 cm.)
with the coat-of-arms (Azure, a chevron Or; lower left)

Specialist note

This unusual lozenge format tended to be primarily used for heraldic paintings - see for example the panel attributed to Pieter Pourbus of The Circumcision, designed for the Rhetoricians of Leffinge near Ostend and now in the Royal Collection (see L. Campbell, Earlier Flemish Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, Cambridge, 1985, pp.109-111, no. 70, pl. 84).