Lot 77: PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW YORK BARTHOLOMEUS VAN BASSEN AND JAN PYNAS (ALKMAAR

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW YORK BARTHOLOMEUS VAN BASSEN AND JAN PYNAS (ALKMAAR 1582/3-1631 AMSTERDAM) ANTWERP CIRCA 1590 - 1652 THE HAGUE THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST, WITH MARY AND JOSEPH PRESENTING THE CHILD TO SAINT SIMEON

oil on panel

PROVENANCE

Patrick Weiller, Paris
By whom sold, New York, Sotheby's, 1 June 1990, lot 24, for $49,500;
There purchased by the present collector.
EXHIBITED

Rochester, New York, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, October 1987 - January 1990.
CATALOGUE NOTE

In the 1990 sale (see Provenance below), it was noted that Dr. A. Blankert, in a letter dated The Hague, October 23, 1985, attributed the present painting to Bartholomeus van Bassen with staffage by Jacob Pynas. He noted that both of these artists lived for some time in Delft and in the Hague, and further noted the inspiration of the artist Pieter Lastman in the figures of the two attendants in the left foreground.

36 3/8 by 58 3/4 in.; 92.4 by 149.2 cm.