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Lot 1133 Dα

Master of the Egmont-Albums - The Adoration of the Magi

Auction 1076 - overview Cologne
19.11.2016, 11:00 - Old Master Paintings and Drawings, Sculpture
Estimate: 6.000 € - 8.000 €
Result: 22.320 € (incl. premium)
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Master of the Egmont-Albums

The Adoration of the Magi

Brown ink and wash and black chalk on paper. 27 x 36.2 cm.
Framed.
Inscribed lower right: HGoltzius.

Around 80 drawings have thus far been attributed to the so-called “Master of the Egmont Albums”. The previous identification of the artist with Dirck Hendricksz Centen has since been abandoned. He was most probably a Netherlandish artist who visited Italy and resided in Cologne for a time, as there is a copperplate engraving there made after a work by this master from 1594. Nicholas Turner was the first to associate the present work with this artist. His assumption was later confirmed in a comprehensive expertise by Prof. Dr. Gert van der Sman, which dated the work to the 1590s.

Certificate

Prof. Dr. Gert Jan van der Sman, Leiden, October 2016.

Provenance

Private collection, Netherlands.

Literature

For this artist cf. G. J. van der Sman: Observations on the Master of the Egmont Albums", in: Fiamminghi a Roma 1508-1608. Proceedings of the symposium held at Museum Catherijneconvent, Utrecht 1995, released in Florence 1999, p. 45-65.