- 300
Circle of Bernard van Orley
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
bidding is closed
Description
- Bernard van Orley
- The Virgin and Child
- oil on panel
Provenance
Possibly with Colnaghi, London;
Acquired for Mrs F. Samuel by her brother-in-law Alfred de Pass, c. 1904;
By whom sold London, Christie’s, 25 October 1957, lot 74 (as Bouts), for 450 guineas to Neefs;
With Galerie Robert Finck, Brussels;
From whom acquired by the family of the present owner.
Acquired for Mrs F. Samuel by her brother-in-law Alfred de Pass, c. 1904;
By whom sold London, Christie’s, 25 October 1957, lot 74 (as Bouts), for 450 guineas to Neefs;
With Galerie Robert Finck, Brussels;
From whom acquired by the family of the present owner.
Catalogue Note
This is one of a number of versions of the composition, the finest of which is a picture formerly in the collection of Friedrich Glück, Budapest, considered by Baldass to be by Van Orley before 1520.1 A workshop version is in the Royal Collection (L. Campbell, The Early Flemish Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, Cambridge 1985, p. 105, no. 66, reproduced plate 78; inv. 1003). Van Orley’s original is in the Prince of Wied collection, Munich.2
1 44 x 29 cm. Reimann collection; with S. Meller, Paris by 1947; later sold at Fischer, Lucerne, 17–24 November 1951, lot 2662; then with Frederick Mont, New York by 1952.
2 M. J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting: Jan Gossart and Bernart van Orley, Leiden and Brussels 1972, vol. VIII, p. 109, no. 133, reproduced plate 115.