Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction

Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction

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Property from a Private Collection

The Master of the Baroncelli Portraits

Pentecost

Auction Closed

July 5, 07:17 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000,000 - 10,000,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection


The Master of the Baroncelli Portraits

active in Bruges circa 1490

Pentecost


oil on panel

106 x 122 cm.; 41¾ x 48 in.

Dr Pieter Rapaert (1579–1635), Bruges;

Thence by descent in the Rapaert de Grass family, until sold in 1931 to

Baron Laurent Meeus (1872–1950), Brussels;

By whom sold to the Weissenbruch family, Brussels – possibly Pierre de Weissenbruch (1904–1970) – in whose family's possession it is recorded by Friedländer 1973 below;

By whose son sold anonymously ('The Property of a Gentleman'), London, Christie's, 7 December 2010, lot 8;

With Jean-Luc Baroni Ltd., London;

From whom acquired by the present collector.

J. Gailliard, Bruges et le Franc ou leur magistrature et leur noblesse, avec des données historiques et généalogiques sur chaque famille, IV, Bruges 1860, p. 279 (as attributed to Memling);

G. Hulin de Loo, Catalogue critique d'exposition de tableaux flamands des XIVème, XVème et XVIème siècles, Ghent 1902, no. 53 (as 'inconnu brugeois, vers 1490');

E. von Baudenhausen, Gerard David und seine Schule, Munich 1905, p. 226 (as 'Juste de Gand');

P. Bautier, 'La descente du Saint Esprit, tableau de l'école brugeoise (fin XVème siècle) dans la collection de M. Laurent Meeus Bruxelles', in Mélanges Hulin de Loo, Brussels and Paris 1931, pp. 33–35 (as 'l'école brugeoise de la fin du XVème siècle, antérieure à 1490');

M.J. Friedländer, Die altniederländische Malerei, X, Lucas van Leyden und andere holländische Meister seiner Zeit, Berlin 1932, pp. 27 and 121, no. 14 (as Jan Mostaert);

S. Speth-Holterhoff, 'Une Heure chez M. Laurent Meeus', in Apollo: Chronique des Beaux-Arts, 1 September 1941, p. 18 (as 'l'école brugeoise de la fin du XVème siècle');

F. Winkler, 'Zur Kenntnis und Wurdigung des Jan Mostaert', in Zeitschrift fr Kunstwissenschaft, XIII, 1959, pp. 183–84, n. 12 ('...une œuvre excellente d'un artiste indépendant, qui n'a rien à voir avec Mostaert');

M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, X, Leyden and Brussels 1973, p. 19, p. 70, no. 14, reproduced pl. 13 (as Jan Mostaert [?]);

L. Campbell, 'Approaches to Petrus Christus', in Petrus Christus in Renaissance Bruges: An Interdisciplinary Approach, M. Ainsworth (ed.), New York and Turnhout 1995, p. 2 (as attributed to the Master of the Baroncelli Portraits);

M. Koster, 'Reconsidering St Catherine of Bologna with three donors by the Baroncelli Master of Bruges', in Simiolus. Netherlands quarterly for the history of art, 26, 1998, no. 1/2, p. 13 (as attributed to the Master of the Baroncelli portraits);

D. Martens and H. Mund, 'Autour de la Pentecôte Rapaert du Maître des Portraits Baroncelli: modèles et traditions dans la peinture Brugeoises à l'aube des temps modernes', in Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen, vol. 45, 2003, pp. 7–37 (as the Master of the Baroncelli Portraits);

S. Ex, 'De Meester van de Baroncelli-portretten. Een buitenkans voor het Boijmans?', Bulletin van de Vereniging Rembrandt, 2011, pp. 34–38 (as the Master of the Baroncelli Portraits);

T.-H. Borchert, 'Meester van de Baroncelli-portretten op bezoek in het Groeningemuseum', in Museumbulletin Musea Brugge, vol. 33, 2013, no. 1, pp. 17–20 (as the Master of the Baroncelli Portraits).

Bruges, Halles de Bruges, Tableaux de l'ancienne école néerlandaise, 1867, no. 44 (as by an unknown Master);

Bruges, Palais Provincial, Exposition des Primitifs flamands et d'art ancient, 1902, no. 53 (as by an unknown Master);

Bruges, Groeningemuseum, on loan 2013–23 (as The Master of the Baroncelli Portraits).