Lot 13: DENIJS VAN ALSLOOT BRUSSELS BEFORE 1573 - 1625/1626

oil on oak panel, the reverse stamped with the brand of the Antwerp panel-makers' Guild and the maker's mark GG (= Guilliam Gabron)

48.5 by 66.8 cm.; 19 1/8 by 26 1/4 in.

London, Richard Green, Summer 1973, no. 3.

THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

Anonymous sale, Paris, 23 November 1972, lot 23;
With Richard Green, London, from whom purchased in 1974 by the present owner.

The same view can be found in another work by Alsloot in the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, which is signed and dated 1616 (see Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, catalogue inventaire de la peinture ancienne, Brussels 1984, p. 3, no. 3457, reproduced). Both paintings were formerly thought to depict the abbey of La Cambre, but although the site is similar, the architecture is not, and the view must be considered a capriccio of various of the abbeys set among ponds in the rolling woodland to the south and east of Brussels.