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CIRCLE OF LUCAS GASSEL (HELMOND C. 1495/1500-C. 1570 BRUSSELS)
An extensive landscape with a town along a river and Samson and the lion in the foreground
oil on panel
2012 x 2614 in. (52 x 66.7 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 24 May 1966, lot 149, as Lucas Gassel.
with Galerie Robert Finck, Brussels, by 1966.
with Dennis Vanderkar, London, 1967, where acquired by the father of the present owner.
Exhibited
Brussels, Galerie Robert Finck, Exposition de tableau de maîtres du XVe au XIXe siècle, 25 November-15 December 1966, no. 10, as Lucas Gassel.
London, Dennis Vanderkar Gallery, Dutch & Flemish Old Masters,30 March-29 April 1967, no. 37, as Lucas Gassel.
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Lot Essay

Though Max Friedländer attributed this painting to Lucas Gassel, it is now believed to be by an anonymous contemporary active in the third quarter of the sixteenth century. Anna Koopstra has associated it with a group of at least four somewhat larger panels (Helmond, Museum Helmond; Madrid, Antiguedades Lozano; sold Christie's, Amsterdam, 20-21 November 2013, lot 75 and formerly Wassenaar, Gosschalk collection) and one of smaller size (formerly J. Freling, Amsterdam) that likewise depict Old Testament subjects and presumably originate from the same workshop.

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