Wednesday 7 October 2015

"Attr. Willem van Nieulandt" is a copy after a Lucas Van Leyden engraving

Baratoux-Dubourg, from Bordeaux, sells on 21 October 2015 an "Attributed to Willem van Nieulandt (1584 -1635)" Ecce Homo, an oil on panel of 50 by 65 cm, estimated at 3,000 to 5,000 Euro.

It is a faithful copy after a famous engraving by Lucas Van Leyden, the so-called "Large Ecce Homo" from 1510 (example from the Rijksmuseum pictured).

The RKD lists one other copy after this work, from the first half of the 16th century, without any guess at who might have painted it.

Whether the work for sale has anything to do with Nieulandt II seems hard to discern. As an anonymous work, it should have trouble fetching the lower estimate.


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