Lot 11: CORNELIS ENGEBRECHTSZ.

THE PROPERTY OF A FAMILY
LEIDEN 1460/65 - 1527
THE CRUCIFIXION WITH THE VIRGIN MARY, SAINTS MARY MAGDALENE, JOHN THE BAPTIST, PETER, AND AN UNIDENTIFIED MALE SAINT
oil on oak panel
61 by 53 cm.; 24 by 20 3/4 in.

Paris, Musée du Louvre, Exposition des Orphelins d'Alsace-Lorraine, 1885, no. 489;
Utrecht, Centraal Museum, Noord-Nederlandsche schilder- en beeldhouwkunst voor 1575, 1913, no. 166.

M.J. Friedländer, Altniederlänische Malerei, Leiden 1932, vol. X, p. 131, no. 88, reproduced plate 88;
G.J. Hoogewerff, De Noord-Nederlandse Schilderkunst, The Hague 1936-47, vol. III, p. 202, & vol. V., p. 133, no. 31 (as 'workshop');
E. Pelink, "Cornelis Engebrechtsz. De herkomst van zijn kunst", in Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, vol. II, 1948-9, p. 53;
M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, vol. X, Leiden 1973, pp. 40, 79, no. 88, reproduced plate 71 (as Cornelis Engelbrechtsz.);
W.S. Gibson, The Paintings of Cornelis Engelbrechtsz., New York & London 1977, pp. 265-6, no. 85 (under 'Miscellaneous School Pieces').

Pelletier collection, Paris, 1885;
With Weinberger, Paris, 1931, by whom sold to
Charles Fabri;
Thence by descent to the present owners (offered, London, Sotheby's, 19 April 1989, lot 25, & New York, Christie's, 6 April 2006, lot 20, estimate $350,000-450,000, unsold).