Lot 11: STUDIO OF JAN MASSYS

STUDIO OF JAN MASSYS ANTWERP CIRCA 1509 - BEFORE 8 OCTOBER 1575 UNEQUAL LOVE oil on panel 66.5 by 91.5 cm.; 26 1/4 by 36 in.

L. Buijnsters-Smets, Jan Massys: een Antwerps schilder uit de zestiende eeuw, Zwolle 1995, p. 196, under no. 36, n. 183.

Anonymous sale, New York, Christie's, 5 June 1980, lot 171 (as attributed to Massys);
Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, 14 January 1988, lot 65 (as by Massys).

The prototype by Massys, signed and dated 1561, is today in the Statens Museum in Copenhagen.υ1 Apart from the present panel, Buijnster-Smets lists only one other version of the design which she considers to be from Massys' workshop; that now in the Staatliche Gemäldegalerie in Kassel.

1. Inv. no. 3734; see Buijnsters-Smets, under Literature, 1995, p. 195, no. 36.