
Collecting Passions - Old Master Paintings from an Important Private Collection
The Presentation of the Virgin
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December 3, 07:54 PM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 GBP
Lot Details
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Collecting Passions - Old Master Paintings from an Important Private Collection
Northern French School, early 16th century
Recto: The Presentation of the Virgin
Verso: A pope and a bishop saint, en grisaille
oil and gold on panel
unframed: 76 x 87 cm.; 29⅞ x 34¼ in.
framed: 93 x 104 cm.; 36⅝ x 41 in.
Cannon Louis Burgeon, Dean of the Church of Saint-Brice in Tournai, before 1866;
Madame Burgeon, widow of the above, Brussels, 1866;
Her daughter, Madame Brulé-Burgeon, Brussels;
With Galerie de Heuvel, Brussels;
Acquired from the above by Baron Coppée, 19 April 1928;
Thence by descent in the family;
By whom sold ('Property from the Coppée Collection'), London, Sotheby's, 9 July 2014, lot 9;
Where acquired by the present owner.
Budapest, Szépművészeti Múzeum, Exhibition of Flemish Art, 1927;
Brussels, Exposition universelle internationale, Cinq siècles d'art, I: Peintures arts anciens bruxellois et sections étrangers, 24 May – 13 October 1935, no. 23 (as Follower of Van der Weyden);
Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, De Van Eyck à Bruegel, 1935, no. 35 (as Flemish School, late 15th century);
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, La Société la Peau de l'Ours, 66 tableaux de maîtres anciens, parmi lesquels quelques chefs d'œuvre, August – September 1937, no. 41 (as Flemish School 15th–16th century);
Brussels, Exposition d'Art Ancien, Noël dans l'art ancien, 18 December 1941 – 6 January 1942, no. 1 (as Follower of Van der Weyden);
Tokyo, Tobu Museum of Art, The World of Bruegel. The Coppée Collection and Eleven International Museums, 29 March – 25 June 1995, no. F1 (as Franco–Dutch School).
S. Leclercq et al., La Collection Coppée, Liège 1991, p. 4, reproduced p. 5;
M. Wilmotte, in the catalogue of the exhibition The World of Bruegel. The Coppée Collection and Eleven International Museums, Tokyo 1995, p. 154, no. F1, reproduced p. 155 (as Franco–Dutch School).