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Willem Basse (1613-1672)
The Flight into Egypt, 1642-1648
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Willem van Basse was born in Amsterdam where he was a pupil of his father Jan Basse. From 1638 on, Basse produced etchings after Goltzius but later became influenced by...
Willem van Basse was born in Amsterdam where he was a pupil of his father Jan Basse. From 1638 on, Basse produced etchings after Goltzius but later became influenced by Rembrandt. His plates, mostly unsigned, are dated from 1628 to 1648 and formerly attributed to Ferdinand Bol or Adriaen van Ostade.
This landscape with the Virgin and Christ as a child seated on a donkey, Saint Joseph walking at right and pointing in the distance, clearly is Rembrandtesque in style and can therefore be dated to the later part of Basse's career.
Provenance
Allen Evarts Foster (1885-1969), New York, by whom gifted toYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT [1965.33.725], deaccessioned
Paul McCarron, New York, 1996
Private collection, New York