SOUTHERN NETHERLANDISH SCHOOL, LATE 15TH CENTURY | THE VIRGIN AND CHILD SURROUNDED BY ANGELS

With Fritz Steinmeyer, Lucerne, 1920;

Private collection, Bavaria;

Anonymous sale, Cologne, Lempertz, 15 November 2014, lot 1017 (as Flemish School, probably 16th century), where acquired.

Although listed on the RKD website as a late 15th- or early 16th-century copy after Rogier van der Weyden,¹ the present painting does not actually appear to be directly based on a known composition by the artist, but rather is loosely based on a Virgin and Child type.²

1 https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/63249

2 M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, vol. II, Leyden 1967, pp. 83-84, cat. nos 108a–n, reproduced pl. 121.