After The Brunswick Monogrammist - Itinerant Entertainers In A Brothel [1550s], originally uploaded by Gandalf's Gallery.
The composition, with variations, is known in several versions, two of which accord with the style of the Brunswick Monogrammist. It is improbable that any of the known versions is the original of the design. The costume dates from the 1550s.
The artist is named after a monogrammed painting of The Feeding of the Poor in the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum in Brunswick. The monogram has not been convincingly deciphered but the picture, executed in about 1540, may be associated with several others of religious and secular subjects. The painter has often been identified as Jan van Amstel, active in Antwerp by 1527 and dead by 1543.
[Oil on oak, 45.5 x 60.7 cm]
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