Pseudo Jan Wellens de Cock

With Guy Stein, Paris, 1936;

Baron Robert Gendebien (1885–1954), Brussels, 1937 (his red wax seals and insignia on the reverse);

Thence by descent to his son, Olivier Gendebien (1924–1998);

By whom sold, London, Sotheby's, 30 November 1983, lot 56 (as The Putative Jan Wellens de Cock);

With Galerie Finck, Brussels, 1984;

Probably from whom acquired by the father of the present owners.

P. Wescher, 'Paris Kunsthandel', in Pantheon, February 1937, p. 65, reproduced p. 63 (as Jan de Cock);

J. Lavalleye, 'Un cabinet d'amateur', in Bulletin de la Société Royale d'Archéologie de Bruxelles, 1937, p. 75, no. 11, reproduced fig. 25 (as Jan de Cock);

G.J. Hoogewerff, De Noord-Nederlandse Schilderkunst, vol. III, The Hague 1939, pp. 364–66, reproduced figs 191 and 193 (as Matthijs de Cock);

G.J. Hoogewerff, 'Werken van Matthijs (of Jan) Wellens de Cock', in Mededeelingen van het Nederlandsch Historisch Instituut te Rome, vol. IX, 1939, pp. 44–45, reproduced fig. 2 (as probably by Matthijs de Cock);

M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, vol. XI, The Antwerp Mannerists..., Leiden 1974, p. 109, note 61;

W.S. Gibson, The Paintings of Cornelis Engebrechtsz., New York and London 1977, p. 260, cat. no. 76b (as a copy with variations of the Von Bissing painting, attributed to the Master of the Vienna Lamentation);

M.R. de Vrij, Jan Wellens de Cock: Antwerp mannerist associate, Amsterdam 2009, pp. 12 and 155, cat. no. 2B, reproduced p. 12, pl. 4 (as ascribed to Matthys Cock?);

J.P. Filedt Kok, Lucas van Leyden en de Renaissance, exh. cat., Leiden 2011, p. 226, n. 6, no. 2, under cat. no. 23 (as a copy of the Von Bissing painting, attributed to the Master J. Kock).