Live Auction 3054The I.Q. van Regteren Altena Collection Part IV
Maerten de Vos (Antwerp 1532-1603)
Lot 104

Maerten de Vos (Antwerp 1532-1603)

A scene from the life of Alexander the Great

Closed13 May 2015

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EUR 9,375

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Maerten de Vos (Antwerp 1532-1603)
A scene from the life of Alexander the Great
pen and brown ink, brown wash, fragmentary brown ink framing lines
27 x 37.5 cm.

Armand Sigwalt (1875-1952) (according to a note in the collection files).
Paul Brandt (1900-1984), his mount; from whom purchased by I.Q. van Regteren Altena.

Specialist note

Close to a drawing by de Vos, dated 1586, in the Bibliothèque nationale, Paris, which represents Alexander's arrival at Jerusalem, greeted by high priests (F. Lugt, Bibliothèque nationale. Cabinet des Estampes. Inventaire général des dessins des écoles du Nord, Paris, 1936, no. 191). The latter drawing was engraved (Hollstein 1314) as part of a series on the Story of Alexander which included five other plates, all after designs by Jan Snellinck (1548-1638).