Live Auction 3054The I.Q. van Regteren Altena Collection Part IV
Circle of Frans Floris I (Antwerp 1519-1570)
Lot 132

Circle of Frans Floris I (Antwerp 1519-1570)

The Good Samaritan (recto); Study of the wounded man's head (verso)

Closed13 May 2015

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EUR 2,250

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Circle of Frans Floris I (Antwerp 1519-1570)
The Good Samaritan (recto); Study of the wounded man's head (verso)
with number '21' (verso)
pen and brown ink, heightened with white (oxidized), on brown prepared paper, an added strip of paper at right, brown ink framing lines (recto); black chalk (verso), watermark crest with name Pinette
25.6 x 22.6 cm.

Specialist note

In a letter dated 23 May 1969 to I.Q. van Regteren Altena, Carl van de Velde wrote that although the drawing is close in style to Frans Floris I he did not accept it as by him. An alternative attribution to the Master of the Prodigal Son (active 1530-1560) has been suggested.

We are grateful to Dr. Frans Laurentius for informing us that the paper dates from 1560-70.