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An Elegant Hunting Party before the Abbey of Rouge-Cloître, near Brussels

An Elegant Hunting Party before the Abbey of Rouge-Cloître, near Brussels

(Netherlandish, 1534–1593)
1591
Medium/TechniqueGouache, heightened with gold, on vellum, within painted border, laid down on panel
Dimensions8.1 x 23.5 cm (3 3/16 x 9 1/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art
Accession number2017.4199
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ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
InscriptionsMonogrammed and dated in gold at lower left on tree trunk: HANS.BOL / 1591
ProvenanceMaurits Ernst Kronenberg, Rotterdam. Nystad Antiquairs (dealer), The Hague; sold by Nystad Antiquairs to Louis C. de Villeneuve (b. 1923 – d. 2010); July 7, 2011, posthumous de Villeneuve sale, Sotheby's, London, lot 10, to Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo, Marblehead, MA [see note 1]; 2017, gift of Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 14, 2017)

NOTES:
[1] According to Frederik J. Duparc in Dutch and Flemish Masterworks: From the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection (Boston, 2020), p. 25.