Lot 251: THE MASTER OF THE MAGDALENE LEGEND

VIRGIN AND CHILD

6 1/4 by 4 in.; 16 by 10.3 cm.

oil on oak panel, gold ground, curved top, in an engaged frame

The Flemish Primitives. Corpus of Early Netherlandish Paintings, vol. XX, Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp, p. 170, reproduced fig. 9, as by the Master of the Magdelene Legend.

This much favoured composition was repeated by the Master of the Magdalene Legend on several further occasions; in a panel in the Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp (curved top); in the Diptych of the Virgin and Child with Willen van Brabant in an Amsterdam private collection (square top); in another single panel formerly in the Demandolx Dedons collection in Marseilles (square top); and in the panel offered New York, Sotheby's, 25 January 2001, lot 31 (curved top and sold as 'Attributed to the Master of the Magdalene Legend').