(Antwerp 1526 – before 1590) and (Hulst 1528–1598 Antwerp)
A Winter landscape with the Massacre of the Innocents,
oil on panel, 72.4 x 105.4 cm, framed

Provenance:
Collection Sir Hugh Dayson,
Bt; Jonkheer Teixeira de Mattos;
possibly Mme J. Teixeira de Mattos;
her sale, Muller, Amsterdam, 28 November 1916;
sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 6 March 1954, lot 80;
sale, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 18 November 1954, lot 305;
sale, Rome, 20 June 1955;
Private collection, France;
sale, Neret-Minet, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 20 November 1987;
sale, Tajan, Paris, 17 December 1997, lot 347;
sale, Christie’s, London, 6 July 2011, lot 102 (as Attributed to Jacob Grimmer);
where purchased by the present owner

Literature:
E. Greindl, Jacob Grimmer, Vienna 1972, no. 59 (as Jacob Grimmer);
R. de Bertier de Sauvigny, Jacob et Abel Grimmer, Catalogue Raisonné, Brussels 1991, pp. 125-26, no. 9 (as having been certified by M. J. Friedländer, “qui le qualifie d’oeuvre important de Jacob”)

The figures of this painting have most probably been executed by Gillis Mostaert, with whom Jacob Grimmer collaborated several times. The painting is listed in the database of the RKD under no. 44173 (as Jacob Grimmer).