Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher

Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 110. Ecce Homo; The Ascension of Christ.

Property from the Collection of Sir Peter Jonas

Attributed to Pieter Aertsen

Ecce Homo; The Ascension of Christ

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December 9, 02:10 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Sir Peter Jonas

Attributed to Pieter Aertsen

Amsterdam 1507/8 - 1575

Ecce Homo; The Ascension of Christ

(2)


both oil on oak panel, framed as a pair

unframed each: 17.9 x 12.5 cm.; 7 x 4⅞ in.

framed overall: 28.8 x 37.5 cm.; 11⅜ x 14¾ in.

With Galerie S. Hartveld, Antwerp, 1933;
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 3 July 1997, lot 128;
Where acquired by Sir Peter Jonas (1946–2020).
D. Kreidl, 'Die religiöse Malerei des Pieter Aertsen als Grundlage seiner künstlerischen Entwicklung', in Jahrbuch der Kusthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien, vol. 68, 1972, pp. 59–63, reproduced p. 62, fig. 40 (Ascension of Christ as Pieter Aertsen).

These works originally formed part of a series of identically sized panels depicting the Life and Passion of Christ. They were probably the predella panels of a winged altarpiece. Nine works were traced by Kreidl (see Literature) who mentioned one of the present pictures, the Ascension of Christ, but not the Ecce Homo, which has remained unpublished and was presumed lost. Two panels from the same series (the Crucifixion and a double-sided panel with the Annunciation and Christ bearing the Cross) are now in the Courtauld Institute, London.1


We are grateful to Dr Peter van den Brink for suggesting these panels were painted by a studio assistant of Jan van Hemessen (c. 1504–1566) in circa 1530.


1 https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/christ-bearing-the-cross-207016; https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/annunciation-207220


For more information on the Collection of Sir Peter Jonas, please see: Sir Peter Jones: A Lifelong Love of Old Masters