Hans van Wechelen

Probably Peeter Stevens (c. 1590–1668), Antwerp;

Probably his Estate sale, Antwerp, 13 August 1668, lot 33 (as Jan van Wechelen, 'Nostre Seigneur portant la Croix hors la Ville de Jerusalem avec beaucoup de monde' ('Our Lord carrying the Cross outside the City of Jerusalem with a large crowd'));

M.A. Mecker;

By whom sold, London, Sotheby’s, 24 March 1971, lot 41 (as Jan van Wechelen), to Holstein;

With Silvano Lodi, Munich, by August 1972;

Anonymous sale, London, Christie’s, 10 July 1981, lot 76 (as Jan van Wechelen and Cornelis van Dalem);

Anonymous sale, New York, Christie’s, 18 January 1983, lot 162 (as Jan van Wechelen and Cornelis van Dalem);

Where acquired by Sir Arthur Gilbert (1913–2001) and his first wife, Rosalinde Gilbert (1913–1995), Los Angeles;

Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby’s, 11 January 1996, lot 78 (as Jan van Wechelen and Cornelis van Dalem);

Dr Hinrich Bischoff (1936–2005);

Thence by inheritance.

Florida, Saint Petersburg, Museum of Fine Arts, Art and Life in Northern Europe, 1500–1800: the Gilbert Collection, 15 December 1990 – 24 February 1991, no. 21 (as Hans [Jan] van Wechlen [Wechelen] and Cornelis van Dalem);

Maastricht, Bonnefanten Museum, Brueghel and Contemporaries: Art as a Covert Resistance?, 6 February – 6 June 2021, no. 47 (as Jan van Wechelen and Cornelis van Dalem?);

Cologne, Wallraff-Richartz Museum, long-term loan, until 2025 (inv. no. Dep. 825).

Probably U. Thieme and H. Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler, vol. XXXV, Leipzig 1942, p. 229 (as Jan van Wechelen);

Probably C. Sterling, 'Cornelis van Dalem et Jan van Wechelen', in Studies in the History of Art: Dedicated to William E. Suida on his Eightieth Birthday, London 1959, p. 285, no. 33 (as Jan van Wechelen and Cornelis van Dalem);

D. Miller, Art and Life in Northern Europe, 1500 – 1800: the Gilbert Collection, exh. cat., Saint Petersburg 1990, p. 45, reproduced in colour p. 31, fig. 21 (as Hans [Jan] van Wechlen [Wechelen] and Cornelis van Dalem);

D. Allart, 'Un paysagiste à redécouvrir: Cornelis Van Dalem', in Revue Belge d'Archéologie et d'Histoire de L'Art, vol. LXII, 1993, p. 129, no. 13 (under rejected attributions: 'rien ne permet de soutenir une attribution à Van Dalem. Il n'est pas exclu, en revanche, que les figures soient de Van Wechelen' ('there is no evidence to support an attribution to Van Dalem. However, it is possible that the figures are by Van Wechelen'));

D. Tamis, in Brueghel and Contemporaries: Art as Covert Resistance?, exh. cat., L. Hendrikman and D. Tamis (eds), Zwolle 2021, pp. 148–49, no. 47, reproduced in colour (as Jan van Wechelen and Cornelis van Dalem?).