The Collection of Hester Diamond Part I
The Collection of Hester Diamond Part I
Pieter Coecke van Aelst
A triptych: The Nativity, The Adoration of the Magi, The Presentation in the Temple
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January 29, 04:53 PM GMT
Estimate
2,500,000 - 3,500,000 USD
Lot Details
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Pieter Coecke van Aelst
Aelst 1502 - 1550 Brussels
A triptych: The Nativity, The Adoration of the Magi, The Presentation in the Temple
oil on panel
center panel: 41 ⅜ by 27 ½ in.; 105 by 70 cm
side panels: 41 ⅜ by 11 ¾ in.; 105 by 30 cm.
Probably, Real Monasterio de Santa Maria de Guadalupe, Cáceres, Spain;
Art market, Seville, by 1913;
Where acquired by Charles Sedelmeyer;
With Galerie Sedelmeyer, Paris, 1913-1926 (as Master of 1518);
Robert Koeber, Hamburg;
C.J. Vogel, Berlin;
From whom acquired by the Weber family, Berlin, 1951-1952;
Thence by descent in the Weber family, Munich;
Private Collection, Munich;
With Senger Bamberg, Munich, 2012 (as Master of 1518);
Where acquired.
Art market, Seville, by 1913;
Where acquired by Charles Sedelmeyer;
With Galerie Sedelmeyer, Paris, 1913-1926 (as Master of 1518);
Robert Koeber, Hamburg;
C.J. Vogel, Berlin;
From whom acquired by the Weber family, Berlin, 1951-1952;
Thence by descent in the Weber family, Munich;
Private Collection, Munich;
With Senger Bamberg, Munich, 2012 (as Master of 1518);
Where acquired.
M.J. Friedländer, “Die Antwerpener Manieristen von 1520,” in Jahrbuch der Königlich Preussischen Kunstsammlungen, no. 36, 1915, pp. 84, 86, no. 71 (as the Master of 1518);
M.J. Friedländer, Die altniederländische Malerei, vol. 11, Berlin and Leiden 1933, p. 124, cat. no. 90, reproduced plates XLI-XLII (as the Master of 1518);
M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, vol. 11, Leiden and Brussels 1974, p. 76, cat. no. 90, reproduced plate 83 (as the Master of 1518);
D. Ewing, “The Paintings and Drawings of Jan de Beer,” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan 1978, vol. I, p. 177, no. 38;
E. Cleland, Grand Design: Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Renaissance Tapestry, exhibition catalogue, New Haven 2014, pp. 25-26, 36-39, 366, cat. no. 1, reproduced in color pp. 36-37, infrared images and detail reproduced p. 24;
D. Ewing, Jan de Beer: Gothic Renewal in Renaissance Antwerp, Turnhout 2016, pp. 190, 310-11, cat. no. 10.31, reproduced in color p. 192, plate 160;
L. Silver, “Review of Exhibition: Grand Design: Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Renaissance Tapestry” in Renaissance Studies vol. 30, no. 5 (November 2016): pp. 773-4, reproduced in color p. 774, fig. 1;
A. DiFuria, "Review of Grand Design: Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Renaissance Tapestry," in Historians of Netherlandish Art Newsletter and Review of Books 32, no. 1 (April 2015): p. 32.
M.J. Friedländer, Die altniederländische Malerei, vol. 11, Berlin and Leiden 1933, p. 124, cat. no. 90, reproduced plates XLI-XLII (as the Master of 1518);
M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, vol. 11, Leiden and Brussels 1974, p. 76, cat. no. 90, reproduced plate 83 (as the Master of 1518);
D. Ewing, “The Paintings and Drawings of Jan de Beer,” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan 1978, vol. I, p. 177, no. 38;
E. Cleland, Grand Design: Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Renaissance Tapestry, exhibition catalogue, New Haven 2014, pp. 25-26, 36-39, 366, cat. no. 1, reproduced in color pp. 36-37, infrared images and detail reproduced p. 24;
D. Ewing, Jan de Beer: Gothic Renewal in Renaissance Antwerp, Turnhout 2016, pp. 190, 310-11, cat. no. 10.31, reproduced in color p. 192, plate 160;
L. Silver, “Review of Exhibition: Grand Design: Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Renaissance Tapestry” in Renaissance Studies vol. 30, no. 5 (November 2016): pp. 773-4, reproduced in color p. 774, fig. 1;
A. DiFuria, "Review of Grand Design: Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Renaissance Tapestry," in Historians of Netherlandish Art Newsletter and Review of Books 32, no. 1 (April 2015): p. 32.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grand Design: Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Renaissance Tapestry, 8 October 2014 – 11 January 2015, no. 1.