Master Paintings Part I

Master Paintings Part I

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Property from a Private South American Collection

Master of the Female Half-Lengths

A Concert with a singer, flautist, and lutenist

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January 26, 05:50 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private South American Collection

Master of the Female Half-Lengths

Active in Antwerp during the first half of the 16th Century

A Concert with a singer, flautist, and lutenist


oil on panel

panel: 18⅝ by 14⅝ in.; 47.3 by 37.1 cm.

framed: 26 by 22⅛ in.; 66 by 56.2 cm.

With Galerie Robert Finck, Brussels, 1953;
From whom acquired by the present collector, 1955.
Connaissance des Arts 21 (15 November 1953), p. 6, reproduced;
M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, Leiden and Brussels 1975, vol. XII, p. 100, cat. no. 106a (incorrectly associated with version now in Los Angeles);
C. Slim, “Paintings of Lady Concerts and the Transmission of ‘Joussance vous donneray,’” in Imago musicae 1 (1984), pp. 51-73, reproduced fig. 4;
L.D. Kop, “Eighth International Conference on Musical Iconography,” in Research Center for Music Iconography Newsletter 5, no. 2 (June 1980), p. 5.