English: 69.2 x 60.4 cm

English: PROVENANCE Count Karol Lanckoronski (1848-1933), Vienna. with Hal O'Nians, London, as 'The Master of 1518', from whom purchased by the father of the present owner in 1968. NOTES Formerly ascribed to The Master of 1518, the attribution for the present panel remains open. The figure types, the richly detailed foreground and the architectural setting are reminiscent of Van Orley's work (for instance, the Virgin and Child in the Metropolitan Museum, New York) and indicative of an artist based in Brussels rather than Antwerp. However, the landscape background is indebted to the work of Joachim Patenir who established his reputation in Antwerp between 1515 and his death in 1524. The fantastic setting in which, most prominently, a winding road is seen ascending to a monastery on a rocky outcrop, relates closely to the landscape in Patenir's Virgin and Child in the Gemaeldegalerie, Berlin. After the Second World War, the restituted collection returned for a short time to Vienna; part of it - including the present picture - was subsequently sold, whilst most of the remainder were moved to Schloss Hohenems in Vorarlberg, only to be destroyed by a fire in 1946. The surviving part, comprising more than eighty Italian Old Masters, was gifted to Poland in 1994 by the descendants of Count Lanckoronski, where it is divided between Wawel Castel, Cracow, and the Royal Castle, Warsaw. Sold in 2002 at Christie's in London for £19,120, from an estimate £15,000 - £25,000.