HENDRICK DE CLERCK (Brussels 1560 - 1630)
The Annunciation
signed with monogram HDC with the D&C conjoined in the center foreground
oil on panel
49 1/8 x 38 inches (124.7 x 96.5 cm.)
Sold to the Phoebus Foundation
PROVENANCE
Possibly Henry Hope, Esq., A Catalogue of the Highly Distinguished and Very Celebrated Collection of Italian, French, Flemish and Dutch Pictures, Christie’s London, June 27 – 29, 1816, lot 51, as by Federigo Baroccio, The Annunciation (fragment of a contemporaneous article of the sale on the reverse)
The Rt. Hon. Godfrey Locker Lampson, P.C., M.P., Barlborough Hall, Nottinghamshire
His sale, Christie’s, London, January 31, 1930, lot 121 (as by De Vos), where purchased by
Moore
Anonymous sale, Christie’s, London, December 13, 2000, lot 21, (as by Hendrick de Clerck) where purchased by
Private Collection, New York, until 2007 from whom acquired by
Lawrence Steigrad Fine Arts, New York, from whom acquired by
Private Collection, New Jersey until the present time
LITERATURE
Portraits and Other Recent Acquisitions, Lawrence Steigrad Fine Arts, New York, 2007, no. 4, illustrated