CIRCLE OF LUCAS GASSEL (HELMOND C. 1495-1570 BRUSSELS)

Though previously attributed to Lucas Gassel, this painting is now thought to be by a contemporary active in the third quarter of the sixteenth century. Edwin Buijsen was the first to associate it and a panel of nearly identical size (Museum Helmond, Helmond) with two panels of similar scale depicting Abraham and the three angels (formerly Gosschalk collection, Wassenaer) and Landscape with the scenes from the life of Samson (sold Christie's, Amsterdam, 20-21 November 2013, lot 75), all of which must have originated in the same workshop. To this group, Anna Koopstra added a somewhat smaller panel measuring 36 x 58 cm. formerly in the Freling collection, Amsterdam (loc. cit.), and, more recently, an Extensive landscape with a town along a river and Samson and the lion in the foreground (sold Christie's, New York, 23 April 2021, lot 6).