Lot 46
  • 46

Circle of Joos van Cleve

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • Joos van Cleve
  • The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist
  • oil on panel
  • 13 1/2 by 10 1/2 in.
  • 34.3 by 26.7 cm.

Provenance

Arthur and Margaret Glasgow, Virginia
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (gift of the above, 1949)
Sold: Christie's, New York, October 17, 2006, lot 203

Exhibited

Roanoke, Roanoke Fine Arts Center, December 5-January 1, 1953
Danville, Danville Art Club, March 28-April 18, 1953
Fredericksburg, Mary Washington College, May 6-20, 1953

Condition

The panel is bowed at the left and right edges. Very minor vertical paint loss at upper left corner, very fine craquelure in the sky; otherwise, good paint surface; soiled varnish. Under UV light: inpainting on the cape of the left figure and a few touches on the cape of the right figure.
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Catalogue Note

The present painting is closely based on Joos van Cleve's Crucifixion in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (see J.O. Hand, Joos van Cleve: The Complete Paintings, New Haven and London, 2004, p. 84, no. 55).