HAUTE EPOQUE, COLONIAL ART AND FINE WATCHES
Lot 273:
With important period frame in ebonized wood. Oil on panel. Table measurements: 32 x 45 cm, framed measurements: 57 x 70 cm. Lot from an important private Spanish noble collection. Albrecht Bouts (Leuven, c. 1451/1460 – 1549) was an important Flemish painter, also known as the “Master of the Assumption of the Virgin”. Son of Dieric Bouts and younger brother of Dieric Bouts II, who inherited his father’s workshop, it seems likely that upon the death of his father, in 1475, he completed his training outside of Louvain, with some unknown teacher who could be Hugo van der Goes, whose influence can be seen in the work of Albrecht, who always tends to accentuate the dramatic features present in his father’s painting. In 1480 he was mentioned for the first time in Louvanian documentation as “pictor ymaginum”, 2 and from that date he frequently worked for the churches of the city, although only one documented work is known: the triptych of the Assumption of the Virgin of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, 3 from which it has been possible to isolate her style and assign a large group of works to her. The Transfiguration of the Fitzwilliam Museum stands out among them, 4 but without a doubt the most popular and repeated of his compositions is the one that shows with extreme pathos the face of Christ as the Man of Sorrows, isolated or forming diptychs with the face of his mother the Virgin. as Mater Dolorosa. Reference bibliography: Beaudoin, F., “Kanttekeningen by de Catalogus van de Dieric Bouts Tentoonstellingen”, Bulletin des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, VII, 1958, pp. 119-140; Châtelet, Albert, Les primitifs hollandais: La peinture dans les Pays-Bas du Nord au XVe siècle, Paris, Bibliothéque des Arts, 1980, pp. 73-78. Provenance: former collection of the XV Duke of Osuna, Mariano Téllez-Girón y Fernández de Córdoba .
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