Attributed to Michiel Gast

The panel is flat and stable. The picture has recently been cleaned and restored and appears in good overall condition. There has been a degree of restoration to small losses and wear around the centre of the upper edge, to the foreground and the dark areas either side of the figures and beneath the ruins behind on the right, as well as some minor local spot retouchings elsewhere. The varnish is clear and even and the painting should not require any further attention. Offered with a later gilt wood frame, many damages.
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Two panels of very similar size by Gast are known: the first, a Landscape with King David, is in the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp; the second, depicting a Landscape with an angel appearing to the Magdalene, was offered in these Rooms, 10 July 2003, lot 103.