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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 27, 2009 | Christie's | New York | The Scholar's Eye: Property from the Julius Held Collection | 66 | $****** - ****** | An Allegory of Folly |
paintings
60.3 x 47.6 cm (23.74 x 18.74 in)
oil on panel
inscribed 'Mot./Mondeken/toe.' (upper left)
Norah Smith, Montreal, 1938 as 'Pieter Brueghel'.
Worcester, Worcester Art Museum, The Worcester-Philadelphia Exhibition of Flemish Painting, 23 February - 12 March 1939. Philadelphia, J.G. Johnson Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 25 March - 26 April 1939, no. 45. Grand Rapids, Grand Rapids Art Gallery, Masterpieces of Dutch Art, 7-30 May 1940, no. 45. Indianapolis, John Herron Art Museum, Holbein and His Contemporaries, 22 October - 24 December 1950, no. 50. Poughkeepsie, Vassar College Art Gallery, Sixteenth Century Paintings from American Collections, 16 October - 15 November 1964, no. 8. Northampton, Smith College Museum of Art, Paintings and Sculpture from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Julius S. Held, 1-27 October 1968, no. 33.
F.F. Sherman, in Art in America, vol. 27, July 1939, p. 147, illustrated, under 'Recent additions to American Private Collections'. Art News Annual, vol. 37, no. 22, 1939, p. 56, illustrated. M.L. Wilson, The Tragedy of Hamlet Told by Horatio, Enschede, 1956, pp. 621-22, fig. 83. E. Tietze-Conrat, Dwarfs and Jesters in Art, London, 1957, pp. 19, 94, fig. 21. C.A. Wertheim Aumes, Hieronymous Bosch, Holland, 1961. W. Willeford, The Fool and His Scepter, Evanston, 1969, pp. 6, 29, pl. 2. L.A. Silver, Quentin Massys (1466-1530), Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 1974, pp. 214-15, 355-56. A. de Bosque, Quentin Metsys, 1975, p. 196, no. 242, illustrated. S. Poley, Unter de Maske des Narren, Stuttgart, 1981, p. 47, fig. 39. L.A. Silver, The Paintings of Quinten Massys with Catalogue Raisonné, Montclair, 1984, pp.146-147, 192, 227-228, no.44, plate 135. C. Gaignebet et al, Art profane et religion populaire au moyen age, Paris, 1985, p. 189. Görel Cavalli-Bjorkman, 'The Laughing Jester', Nationalmuseum Bulletin, Stockholm, IX, 1985, no. 2, p. 106, fig. 7. S. Evans, Ben Jonson, PhD diss., University of Kansas, 1991. P. Lampert, Chronik der Bad Homburger Fastnacht, 1998, p. 100. M. Slowinski, Blazen, Poznán, cover illustration.
