Lot 17: Attributed to Jan Mostaert (Haarlem c. 1475-1555/56)

Attributed to Jan Mostaert (Haarlem c. 1475-1555/56)
The Temptation in the Wilderness
oil on panel
53 x 65 cm.

Almelo, Kunstkring de Waag, Oude kunst uit Twents particulier bezit, 1953, inv.no. 30.

M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, 1973, X, p. 69, pl. 10, no. 9, as 'Jan Mostaert' and erroneously thought to have been in the Van Valkenburg collection, Amsterdam.

with V.H. Boschtent.
with J.H. Borghouts, Utrecht.
H.B.N. Ledeboer, Enschede and by descent to the present owners.

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A copy after the present composition was formerly in the Van Valkenburg collection, Amsterdam.