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
The Master of the Gold Brocade
The Virgin and Child
Lot Closed
December 9, 02:05 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
The Master of the Gold Brocade
Flemish, active early 16th century
The Virgin and Child
oil on panel
unframed: 33.2 x 25.6 cm.; 13⅛ x 10⅛ in.
framed: 72.4 x 66 cm.; 28½ x 26 in.
This composition is closely comparable to the Virgin and Child by the Master of the Gold Brocade in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon.1 The same Virgin and Child are seen in reverse in compositions including that by The Master of the Magdalen Legend in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Belgium,2 as well as in some examples on canvas by the Master of Dijon.3 Other examples by the Master of the Gold Brocade include one which sold at Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 27 February 1923, lot 13; one with Galerie Mestrallet, Paris, 1936; and one which sold at Lempertz, Cologne, 25 November 2000, lot 1180.
1 http://mba-collections.dijon.fr/ow4/mba/voir.xsp?id=00101-12558&qid=sdx_q4&n=25&e=
2 https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/50056
3 D. Wolfthal, The beginnings of Netherlandish canvas painting: 1400–1530, Cambridge 1989, nos 91–95.