A river landscape with Saint Christopher carrying the Christ Child, guided by a hermit with a lantern on the shore
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History:
with Galerie dr. Benedict & Co., Berlin. with Paul Cassirer and Hugo Helbing, Munich, by 1926. Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza (1875-1947), Schloss Rohoncz, by 1929, and by inheritance to the present owner. -Auctioned on the Old Master Paintings and Sculpture at Christies from November 25 – 9 december 2022, lot 103
Literature:
Max. J. Friedländer, Die altniederländische Malerei, Leiden, 1936, XIII, p. 148, no. 79. R. Heinemann, ed. Sammlung Schloss Rohoncz, Lugano, 1937; and 1958, no. 34. R. Heinemann, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Lugano, 1969, no. 31, p. 36. R. Heinemann, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Lugano, 1971, no. 31, p. 40. M. J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting: Antonis Mor and his Contemporaries, Leiden, 1975, XIII, p. 80, no. 79, pl. 41. C. Eisler, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. Early Netherlandish Painting, Castagnola-Lugano, 1989, pp. 252-255, no. 40, illustrated.
