Live Auction 19450Old Master and British Drawings and Watercolours including a Fine Collection of Old Master Prints
FOLLOWER OF HUGO VAN DER GOES (GHENT CIRCA 1440-1482 BRUSSELS)
Lot 26

FOLLOWER OF HUGO VAN DER GOES (GHENT CIRCA 1440-1482 BRUSSELS)

Saints Jude Thaddaeus and Alena; and A female martyr and Saint John the Baptist

Closed6 July 2021

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FOLLOWER OF HUGO VAN DER GOES (GHENT CIRCA 1440-1482 BRUSSELS)
Saints Jude Thaddaeus and Alena; and A female martyr and Saint John the Baptist
pen and grey ink, grey wash, watermark hand with cloverleaf (cf. Briquet, no. 11460, used in Luxembourg, 1498) (ii)
(i) 9 ½ x 7 ¾ in. (24 x 19.6 cm); (ii) 6 ½ x 7 ½ in. (16.4 x 19 cm)
(2)

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Three of the four saints in this pair of sheets can be identified by their attributes: the club of Jude Thaddaeus, the arm lost by Alena of Forest (near Brussels), and the cross and lamb of the Baptist. The use of parallel hatching, especially evident in the figure of Saint Alena, points to an artist in the wake of Hugo van der Goes; compare, among other works, a design for a glass roundel in the Frits Lugt Collection, Paris, inv. 4023 (F. Koreny, with E. Pokorny, in Early Netherlandish Drawings from Jan van Eyck to Hieronymus Bosch, exhib cat., Antwerp, Rubenshuis, 2002, no. 36, ill.).