Lot 101: DENIJS VAN ALSLOOT BRUSSELS BEFORE 1573 - 1625/1626

THE PROPERTY OF A NOBLEMAN

CEPHALUS AND PROCRIS

measurements note
55 by 70.5 cm.; 21 3/4 by 27 3/4 in.

signed lower right: ALSOV...

oil on copper

PROVENANCE

In the possession of the present owner's family by 1785/6, when listed in their inventory as no. 264;
In their 1899 inventory as no. 300.

NOTE

A painting of the same subject by Van Alsloot, with figures by his usual collaborator Hendrick de Clerk, dated 1608, is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Inv. no. 1077. The staffage in the present work is by an unidentified hand.