Lot 14: JAN MASSYS ANTWERP CIRCA 1509 - BEFORE 8 OCTOBER 1575

oil on panel

BATHSHEBA OBSERVED BY KING DAVID

109.5 by 76 cm.; 43 1/8 by 29 7/8 in.

W. Thieme & U. Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Leipzig 1930, vol. XXIV, p. 227;
L. Buijnster-Smets, Jan Massys, Zwolle 1995, pp. 175-177, reproduced;
E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs, vol. 9, Paris 1999, p. 538.

Earl of Clarendon, The Grove, Watford;
His sale, London, Christie's, 13 February 1920, lot 64, to Gellibrand;
Roerich Museum, New York;
By whom sold, New York, American Art Association, 27-28 March 1930, lot 154, for $800;
Paolino Gerli, New York;
Thence by descent to Francis Gerli;
His Sale, New York, Sotheby's, 9 June 1983, lot 76.