Lot 11
  • 11

Circle of Jan Wellens de Cock

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

  • Jan Wellens de Cock
  • Temptation of Saint Anthony
  • oil on panel

Provenance

With E. & A. Silberman Galleries, New York;
Purchased with funds from the Friends of Art by the High Museum of Art in 1952 (1952.19).

Exhibited

Atlanta, The High Museum of Art, Paintings and Sculpture, Gothic to Surrealism, 8 January - 5 February 1950, cat. no. 17 (as Attributed to Hieronymus Bosch);
New Orleans and Chattanooga, Northern European Master Exhibition, February - April 1953;
E. Zafran, European Art in the High Museum, Atlanta 1984, p. 97, reproduced in color p. 81 (as Follower of Hieronymus Bosch).

Condition

Panel is uncradled. under a slightly dirty old varnish. the paint surface overall has been well retained with very good detail in most of the landscape and figures. some thinness is noticeable in some of the browns such as the rocks and robes of St. Anthony at left and the tower and arches at right side, but these are minor and painting generally reads well. examination under UV light reveals some old retouches throughout sky and a few here and there in water. Offered in a plain brown wood frame.
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