Lot 448

Overall in Very Good Condition
- crackle/craquelure and drying cracks in areas throughout
- white accretion spots lower right




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Christies, London, 11 July 2013, Lot 65

Royal Academy, London, 1839

ed. Susan P. Casteras and Roland Parkinson, Richard Redgrave 1804-1888, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988

Bearing label verso of restorer Hamish Dewar, St James's, London

For a preparatory study for the present piece, see Richard Redgrave RA, Quentin Matsys in His Studio, 1839 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London [no. 210-1887]

Another preparatory study, Richard Redgrave RA, Compositional study for Quentin Matsys, The Blacksmith of Antwerp, c.1839 is held at The Royal Academy of Arts, London [no. 17/2992]