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Work: 37 x 24 cm
Frame: 48 x 35,5 cm
The back of the panel with the marks of Antwerp (the two hands and the castle of Antwerp), as well as the mark of the panel maker Michiel Claessens (a clover leaf, link). In our opinion, this is a 17th-C. panel with later painting (a reclaimed panel).
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- About the Antwerp panel maker's marks, see: Van Damme, Jan. “The Antwerp panel-makers and their marks.” In Jordaens Van Dyck Panel Paintings Project. Updated by Ingrid Moortgat and Piet Bakker, edited by Joost Vander Auwera, with an introduction, and Justin Davies. Translated by Michael Lomax. See also Wadum, Jørgen. “The Antwerp Brand on Paintings on Panel”. In Looking Through Paintings, eds. Erma Hermens et al., vol 11, pp. 179–98. London, Archetype Publications Ltd., 1998).