Property from a Private Collection
Follower of Hans Memling
The Virgin and Child enthroned, accompanied by music-making angels, a landscape beyond
Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 GBP
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Property from a Private Collection
Follower of Hans Memling
The Virgin and Child enthroned, accompanied by music-making angels, a landscape beyond
oil on oak panel
unframed: 77 x 56.3 cm.; 30¼ x 22⅛ in.
framed: 90 x 69.2 cm.; 35⅜ x 27¼ in.
Dr Wilhelm Alexander Freund (1833–1917), Berlin;
With Theodor Fischer, Lucerne, by 1930;
With Edouard Lucas-Moreno, Paris;
Possibly private collection, Paris, by December 1935 (according to a mount at the RKD);
Possibly with Dr Curt Benedict and Co., Paris, by November 1945 (according to a mount at the RKD);
Private collection, Wassenaar, by 1973;
Thence by descent.
Several altarpieces by Hans Memling (act. 1465; d. 1494) incorporate the Virgin and Child enthroned in front of a lavishly embroidered cloth, a landscape on either side and attendant angels. One such example, in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, likewise features an angel wearing blue robes and playing a harp on the right.1
1 Accession no. 1937.1.41; oil on panel, 58.8 x 48 cm.; https://www.nga.gov/artworks/48-madonna-and-child-angels.
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