Live Auction 3063Old Masters & 19th Century Art - (including Dutch Impressionism)
Antwerp School, c. 1520-30
Lot 19

Antwerp School, c. 1520-30

A Triptych: Saint Luke painting the Virgin; The Virgin and Child and the Holy Spirit; and A male donor before a landscape; A skull on the outer faces

Closed25 May 2016

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EUR 55,500

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Antwerp School, c. 1520-30
A Triptych: Saint Luke painting the Virgin; The Virgin and Child and the Holy Spirit; and A male donor before a landscape; A skull on the outer faces
oil on panel, arched top, in an integral frame
central panel: 44.1 x 33 cm.; left wing: 44.2 x 16.4 cm.; right wing: 44 x 16.1 cm.

Acquired by the father of the present owners in the 1970s; thence by descent.

Specialist note

It has been suggested the artist may have worked in the circle of the Master of the Antwerp Adoration (active in Antwerp circa 1500-20). The triptych served as an epitaph, and regarding the monk depicted on the right wing, must have been ordered by a Benedictine.