Old Master Day Sale including Old Master Paintings, Drawings and British Works on Paper
Old Master Day Sale including Old Master Paintings, Drawings and British Works on Paper
Lot Closed
July 29, 12:10 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
WILLEM KEY
Breda circa 1515/6 - 1568 Antwerp
PIETÀ
oil on panel
unframed: 101.7 x 127 cm.; 40 x 50 in.
framed: 126.2 x 150.8 cm.; 49¾ x 59⅜ in.
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Emmanuel La Roche, Basel;
By whom anonymously sold, London, Sotheby's, 9 December 1981, lot 100 (as attributed to Willem Key);
Anonymous sale, Bern, Stuker, 13–29 November 1997, lot 1277;
Private collection, Switzerland;
Whence sold, Zurich, Koller, 18 September 2015, lot 3019, where acquired.
K. Jonckheere, Willem Key (1516–1568), Portrait of a humanist Painter, Turnhout 2011, pp. 165 and 167, cat. no. A86, reproduced in colour p. 166.