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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
On View
Not on view
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.
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