Property from a Private Collection, Hong Kong
Follower of Joos van Cleve
The Holy Family
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Property from a Private Collection, Hong Kong
Follower of Joos van Cleve
The Holy Family
oil on oak panel
unframed: 50.7 x 37.8 cm.; 20 x 14⅞ in.
framed: 65 x 50 cm.; 25⅝ x 19¾ in.
With Maurice Woolff Jacobson, Paris;
By whose Executors erroneously donated to the National Gallery, London, before 1947 (inv. no. 5470);
Returned to Woolff Jacobson's heirs, after 1968;
Private collection, United Kingdom.
M. Davies, National Gallery Catalogues: Early Netherlandish School: Plates, London 1947, p. 70, reproduced fig. 5470 (as after the Master of the Death of the Virgin);
M. Davies, National Gallery Catalogues: Early Netherlandish School, 3rd ed., London 1968, p. 103, no. 5470 (as after the Master of the Death of the Virgin; 'usually identified with Joos van Cleve').
This composition closely relates to a design by Joos van Cleve (c. 1485–1540/41), of which the best-known version hangs today in the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg.1
1 Inv. no. ГЭ-411; oil on canvas, 42.5 x 31.5 cm.
