Joseph van der Veken

The Annunciation

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Property from a European Private Collection

Joseph van der Veken

Antwerp 1872 - 1964 Ixelles

The Annunciation

oil on oak panel

unframed: 84.9 x 54.3 cm.; 33⅜ x 21⅜ in.

framed: 91.1 x 60.1 cm.; 35⅞ x 23⅝ in.

Haus Schellenbaum (according to a note in the M.J. Friedländer archive);
H. Lanz, Graz, 7 April 1949;
Dr Hans Fetscherin, Winterthur (as Master of the Embroidered Foliage; according to a label on the reverse).

J.-L. Pypaert, 'Early Netherlandish Painting XV ? Joseph Van der Veken', in D. Vanwijnsberghe (ed.), Autour de la Madeleine Renders: un aspect de l'histoire des collections, de la restauration et de la contrefaçon en Belgique dans la première moitié du XXe siècle, Scientia Artis, vol. 4, Brussels 2008, p. 231, no. 109, reproduced.

This painting by Joseph (or Jef) van der Veken, the Belgian art restorer and forger who specialised in reproducing works resembling those of Early Netherlandish artists, is a pastiche of Rogier van der Weyden's style. Van der Veken reused the same baldacchino as is found here in another pastiche of the Annunciation, formerly in the Emden collection, sold at Lepke, Berlin, 9 November 1915, lot 119.¹

¹ See Pypaert 2008, p. 204, no. 3, reproduced.