Property from the Collection of Dr Hinrich Bischoff
Lucas van Valckenborch
The Crucifixion of Christ on Mount Calvary
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December 3, 07:54 PM GMT
Estimate
300,000 - 400,000 GBP
Lot Details
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Property from the Collection of Dr Hinrich Bischoff
Lucas van Valckenborch
Leuven after 1535–1597 Frankfurt-am-Main
The Crucifixion of Christ on Mount Calvary
signed with monogram and dated lower centre on the rock: 1568 /VV/L ;
also inscribed with inventory number 114 lower centre
oil on oak panel
41.9 x 67.9 cm.; 16½ x 26¾ in.
Dr. Herbert Girardet (1910–1972), Kettwig and Ruhr;
Thence by descent in the family, probably to one of his two sons;
By whom probably anonymously sold ('The Property of a Gentleman'), London, Christie's, 23 April 1982, lot 88;
With Kunsthandel P. de Boer, Amsterdam, by 1983;
Dr Hinrich Bischoff;
Thence by inheritance.
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans van Beuningen and Cologne, Wallraf Richartz-Museum, Sammlung Herbert Girardet, Holländische und Flämische Meister, 24 January – 7 June 1970, no. 58;
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, on loan, until 2016.
H. Vey, Sammlung Herbert Girardet, Holländische und Flämische Meister, exh. cat., Essen 1970, unpaginated, no. 58, reproduced;
A. Wied, Lucas und Marten van Valckenborch: Das Gesamtwerk mit Kritischem Oeuvrekatalog, Freren 1990, pp. 19 and 131, no. 7, reproduced.
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