Name: WORKSHOP OF JAN VAN SCOREL (SCHOORL 1495-1562 UTRECHT)
Brand: The Crucifixion
Price: 13000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

WORKSHOP OF JAN VAN SCOREL (SCHOORL 1495-1562 UTRECHT)
The Crucifixion
oil on panel
37³⁄₄ x 29³⁄₈ in. (95.9 x 74.4 cm.)

Jean Brom, by whose heirs sold in 1917 to,
Douwe Komter (1871-1957), Amsterdam; his sale, Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 9 March 1926 (=1st day), lot 91, as 'Jan van Scorel'.
Anonymous sale; Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 21 December 1943, lot 40, as 'Jan van Scorel'.
Hans Johan de Koster (1914-1992), Wassenaar.
with S. Nijstad, Lochem and The Hague.
Private collection, Belgium, 2001-2002.
Private collection, The Netherlands.

J.F.M. Sterck, 'De calvarieberg door Jan van Scorel in de Oude Kerk te Amsterdam', Jaarboek van het genootschap Amstelodamum, XVI, 1918, p. 179, as 'Jan van Scorel'.
G.J. Hoogewerff, Jan van Scorel, peintre de la renaissance hollandaise, The Hague, 1923, pp. 54 and 135, no. 27, fig. 50, as 'Jan van Scorel and Workshop'.
C.H. de Jonge, Jan van Scorel, Amsterdam, 1940, pp. 32 and 35, illustrated.
G.J. Hoogewerff, De Noord-Nederlandsche schildekunst, The Hague, 1941, IV, p. 88.
J. Bruyn, 'Twee anonyme navolgers van Jan van Scorel, Oud Holland, LXX, 1955, p. 201, fig. 3.
B.M. Bijtelaar, 'Het hoge koor van de Oude Kerk te Amsterdam', Jaarboek van het genootschap Amstelodamum, LV, 1963, p. 39.
M. J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting: Jan van Scorel and Pieter Coeck van Aelst, XII, New York and Washington, 1975, pp. 76, 120, no. 299, pl. 163, as a workshop replica after the lost high alter of the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam.
L. Helmus, Schilderen in opdracht. Noord-Nederlandse contracte voor altaarstukken, 1485-1570, PhD dissertation, University of Amsterdam, 2010, p. 261, note 4.
L. Helmus, M. Faries and D. Tamis, Catalogue of paintings 1363-1600 : Centraal Museum Utrecht, Utrecht, 2011, pp. 261-263, no. 32, illustrated.

Amsterdam, A. Mak, Tentoonstelling collectie kunsthandel D. Komter, 1924, no. 91, as 'Jan van Scorel'.
Utrecht, Aartsbisschoppelijk Museum, on loan, 1933-1942.
Amsterdam, Amsterdams Historisch Museum, De Oude Kerk, 1939-1940, no. 178.
Utrecht, Centraal Museum, Jan van Scorel, 3 August-30 October 1955, no. 30, as 'Jan van Scorel'.
Utrecht, Centraal Museum, on loan, 2009-2022, inv. no. 31185.
Utrecht, Centraal Museum, Scorels roem: hoe een Utrechtse schilder de renaissance naar het noorden bracht, 20 March-28 June 2009, no. 40.

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Lot Essay

Max Friedländer believed this to be a workshop replica after a Crucifixion by Jan van Scorel, now lost, previously on the high altar of the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam (op. cit.).