Vincent Sellaer

(Mechelen circa 1500–1589)
The Holy Kinship, Anna and Joachim with Maria Cleophas and her four sons,
oil on panel, 82 x 104 cm, framed

Provenance:
Wyatt Turner Collection;
his sale, Christie’s, London, 1932 (as Jan van Scorel);
sale, Giroux, Brussels, 5 May 1934;
sale, Christie’s, London, 13 July 1962, lot 176;
sale, Sotheby’s, London, 13 December 1978, lot 94;
Private collection, Vienna;
sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 7 October 1998, lot 135;
where bought by the present owner

We are grateful to Peter van den Brink for confirming the attribution of the present painting on the basis of a high resolution digital photograph.

Another version of the present composition by Vincent Sellaer was offered at Dorotheum, Vienna, on 29 September 2004, lot 195 . Other versions are in the Church of Notre Dame, Zwolle, in the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, and in the Musées des Beaux-Arts, Brussels.