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THE MASTER OF FRANKFURT (ACTIVE ANTWERP, LATE 15TH/EARLY 16TH CENTURY)

Estimate value
$ 60 000 – 80 000
Auction dateClassic
23.05.2024 10:00UTC -04:00
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ID 1196454
Lot 3 | THE MASTER OF FRANKFURT (ACTIVE ANTWERP, LATE 15TH/EARLY 16TH CENTURY)
THE MASTER OF FRANKFURT (ACTIVE ANTWERP, LATE 15TH/EARLY 16TH CENTURY)

The wings of an altarpiece: Saint Catherine of Alexandria; and Saint Barbara

oil on panel

27 ¼ x 10 ½ in. (69 x 27 cm.) each

(2)a pair





Provenance

Casa Gherardesca, Florence (according to an annotation on the verso of a photograph taken by Foto Reali, Florence, c. 1925).

with G. Egidi, Florence, 1926-27 (see S.H. Goddard, loc. cit.).

with Knoedler, London, July 1927 (ibid.).

with Vose Galleries, Boston, 1928 (ibid.).

Mr. and Mrs. Edwin S. Webster, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts; and by whom sold,

[Property from the Collection of the Late Mr. and Mrs. Edwin S. Webster, Chestnut Hill, MA]; Sotheby’s Parke-Bernet, New York, 16 June 1977, lot 42.

[Property of a Main Line Philadelphia Estate]; Sotheby’s, New York, 5 April 1990, lot 19, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

M.J. Friedländer, Die altniederländische Malerei, VII, Leiden, 1934, p. 138, no. 130e.

W.R. Valentiner, 'Jan de Vos, the Master of Frankfurt', The Quarterly, VIII, 1945, p. 212, no. 2.

M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, VII, Leiden, 1971, p. 76, no. 130e.

The Burlington Magazine, CXIX, 1977, advertisement, p. LXXX, illustrated.

S.H. Goddard, 'The Master of Frankfurt and his Shop', Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België, Klasse der Schone Kunsten, XLVI, Brussels, 1984, p. 145, no. 60, as 'Shop of the Master of Frankfurt, ca. 1507'.



Exhibited

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Paintings, Prints and Drawings from New England Collections, 9 June-10 September 1939, nos. 78 and 79.

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, on loan, May 1942-January 1946; and 1969-November 1976.
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