Workshop of Pieter Coecke van Aelst the Elder

Made up of three horizontal panels, stabilized with cradling along the joins. The paint surface is dirty and thinning in places. There are scattered retouchings throughout which have slightly discoloured, concentrated on the tiled floor, the upper windows, and in the background around some of the disciples' heads. There is a 14 cm line of flaked paint on the left backwall, and more on the right wall, all of which has been restored. The lower join has been repaired. Judas' face has been scratched out (attacked?) in the past, also restored. This lot is offered in plain wooden frame.
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This is a workshop production based on the prototype in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Brussels.¹

1. Inv. no. 1393, panel, 63.5 by 82 cm., dated ANO 1531. See Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique. Catalogue inventaire de la peinture ancienne, Brussels 1984, p. 62, reproduced p. 63.