Lot 104: JOACHIM BEUCKELAER

ANTWERP CIRCA 1534 - CIRCA 1574 ANTWERP (?)
THE ADORATION OF THE SHEPHERDS
signed lower right with monogram: IB and dated upper left: 1564
oil on marouflaged panel
29 1/4 by 23 1/4 in.; 74.3 by 59 cm.

Greenwich, Bruce Museum, Reclaimed: Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker, 10 May - 7 September 2008, cat. no. 11.

W. Kloek, "Pieter Aertsen en het probleem van het samenstellen van zijn oeuvre", in Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboeck, 40, 1989, p. 25, note 26;
P. Sutton, Reclaimed: Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker, exhibition catalogue, New Haven and London 2008, pp. 118-123, cat. no. 11, reproduced pp. 119, 123.

Mr. S. A. (possibly S. Alberge, The Hague);
With Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam, before December 1922 (inv. 1578);
Looted by the Nazi Authorities, July 1940;
Anonymous sale, Hamburg, Hauswedell & Nolte, 11 June 2004, lot 814;
Klaus Lanker, St. Gall;
With Dr. Rohe, Munich;
Anonymously sold ("The Property of a Private Collector"), London, Sotheby's, 9 December 2004, lot 103;
With Jack Kilgore & Co., New York;
Restituted to Marei von Saher, the heir of Jaques Goudstikker, February 2008.