dated upper centre, on the pediment: 1520;
This is an autograph replica of the central panel of a triptych of the Adoration of the Magi formerly in the collection of prince Wied, Neuwied (see M.J. Friedländer, op. Cit. No. 291, figs. 128-9), which is dated 1517 in the same location. A further replica, dated 1536, is recorded by Friedländer as having been on the Paris art market in 1929 (loc. Cit). The quality of the present work remains extremely high, for example in the delicate handling of the drapery of the Magi – particularly the gilded robe of Caspar – the gentle and sympathetic expressions of the principal figures and the strength of the artist’s perspective.
Literature: M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, XI, Leiden, 1975, pp.57 and 114, under no. 239, as dated 1520.
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