Old Master Paintings Part One and Part Two

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Lot 6
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The Master of the Female Half-lengths Active in Antwerp during the first half of the 16th Century

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Description

  • The Master of the Female Half-Lengths
  • the magdalene, half-length, holding a jar of unguent
  • oil on oak panel

Provenance

Acquired by the late owner from Arthur de Heuvel in Brussels in 1961 or 1962.

Catalogue Note

Of the several different variants of this subject treated by the Master of the Female Half Lengths, this picture most closely resembles that in the collection of the Fürsten zu Salm-Salm at Anholt (see M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, vol. XII, Leiden 1975, p. 98, no. 83, reproduced plate 41). However, the figure's headgear is more elaborate In the present picture, and the parts below the Magdalene's shoulders quite different.