Property from a Dutch Private Collector
Workshop of Quentin Massys
Saint Jerome in his study
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Dutch Private Collector
Workshop of Quinten Massys
Leuven 1466–1530 Kiel near Antwerp
Saint Jerome in his study
oil on oak panel
unframed: 57 x 75.6 cm.; 22½ x 29¾ in.
framed: 67 x 86 cm.; 26⅜ x 33⅞ in.
With Bertil Rapp, Stockholm, by 1952;
Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Foreign Collector'), London, Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., 16 April 1980, lot 105 (as Jan Massys);
Where acquired.
L. Buijnsters-Smets, Jan Massys. Een Antwerps schilder uit de zestiende eeuw, Zwolle 1995, p. 170, no. 15, reproduced p. 169 (as Jan Massys);
M.C. Galassi, Jan Massys: Renaissance Painter of Flemish Female Beauty, Turnhout 2023, p. 161, fig. 6.06, reproduced p. 163 (as workshop of Jan Massys);
L. Campbell, 'Review of 'Jan Massys (c. 1510–1573): Renaissance Painter of Flemish Female Beauty'', in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 166, no. 1460, p. 1161 (as 'taken from a lost original by Quinten, dated 1530').
This composition closely relates to a lost original of around 1525–30 by Quentin Massys, the best-known, extant version of which hangs today in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.1 As argued by Leontine Buijnsters-Smets (see Literature), the present version was probably executed by Jan Massys (c. 1509–1573), Quentin's son, who headed up his father's workshop towards the end of Quentin's life.
1 Inv. no. 965; oil on oak panel, 57 x 77 cm.
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