Jan van Hemessen

Lot 245: The Virgin and Child

Name: The Virgin and Child
Brand: Christie's
SKU: 2dpwbri75t

Est: $10,000 USD - $15,000 USDSold:

Christie'sNew York, NY, USApril 15, 2008

Item Overview

Description

Jan Sanders van Hemessen active Antwerp c. 1519-1556
The Virgin and Child
oil on panel
16½ x 11¾ in. 41.9 x 29.9 cm.

Artist or Maker

Jan van Hemessen

Provenance

Colonel E.L. Bull by 1939, and thence by descent to the present owner.

Notes

Please note that the present lot will be accompanied by a copy of a letter from Dr. Max J. Friedländer stating that it is a 'fine Netherlandish painting of a Madonna and Child of circa 1530, probably by the same hand as that in the Heller Collection'. Dr. Friedländer notes similar Madonnas in the collections of the museums in Rotterdam and Utrecht.

Auction Details

Important Old Master Paintings Part I

Christie's

April 15, 2008, 12:00 AM EST

20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY, 10020, US

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