Lot 127: JAN WELLENS DE COCK (Leyden c.1480-c.1527 Antwerp)

The Temptation of Saint Anthony oil on panel inset into panel 141/2 x 121/2 in. (36.8 x 31.8 cm.) PROVENANCE with Goudstikker, Amsterdam, 1927. with Walter Andreas Hofer, Munich, 1957, where purchased by the present owner ($3,500). LITERATURE Dr. J.G. van Gelder, 'Some unpublished works by Jan Wellens de Cock', in The Burlington Magazine, August 1927, p. 74, pl. IIIA. NOTES Sold with a photocertificate from Dr. Ernst Buchner, Munich, dated 21 March 1956, and two photocertificates from M.J. Friedl„nder, Amsterdam, dated 3 August 1952 and 29 March 1956, the latter dating the painting to 1522. SALESROOM NOTICE WITHDRAWN.