17th century ANVERSOISE COLOUR, follower of Joos van CLEVE Virgin and Child Parquet panel On the back label 'Bernard van Orley 17th century Antwert school, foll. of J. van Cleve, Virgin and Child, craddled panel 72 x 55 CM - 28,3 x 21,7 IN. Provenance Sale at Drouot Rive Gauche, study Champetier de Ribes, 16 March 1976, n° 15 (as "Entourage de Van Cleve") There are several versions of this composition by Joos van Cleve and his workshop, in which the Flemish master drew inspiration for the pose of the figures from Giampietrino's Madonna of the Cherries. The versions closest to our panel, in which the cherries held by the child have been replaced by an ornate cross and the vase on the left and the column with the caprid skull on the right have been added, are in the Muzeum Narodowe in Warsaw and the Museo diocesano in Bressanone (file in the R.K.D, Rijksbureau voor KunsthistorischeDocumentatie, permalink no. 41682; J. O. Hand, Joos van Cleve. The Complete Paintings, New Haven and London, 2004, p. 188, no. 112.20 and 112.21). These last two paintings do not have landscapes, but architecture.