The Adoration of the Shepherds

Gerard Leembruggen (Dutch)Hillegom, the Netherlands; Leembruggen sale, C.F. Roos, Amsterdam, March 5, 1866, no. 243, sold as Frans Floris, for 19 [guilders?] to Ellinkhuisen [sic]. Lugt says that Leembrugen used numbers as marks and he mentions a sale in 1866. Lugt no. 2988.; Ignatius Franciscus Ellinckhuysen Rotterdam; Ellinckhuysen sale, Frederick Muller & Co., Amsterdam, Nov. 19-20, 1878, no. 125, sold as Frans Floris; gives ex collection Leembruggen; C.M. van Gogh?
Ellinckhuysen's mark is Lugt collector's mark 3008. His collection was acquired by the dealer C.M. Van Gogh, who sold it to F. Muller & Cie.; Vendor: Hellmuth Wallach

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Bean 52; Bean and Turcic 1986.79

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Cécile Scailliérez, Hélène Billat, Michèle Bimbenet-Privat, Dominique Cordellier, Peter Fuhring, Marianne Grivel, Isabelle Haquet, Maxence Hermant, Séverine Lepape, Guy-Michel Leproux, Danièle Véron-Denise, Olivier Renaudeau, Henri Zerner, Audrey Nassieu-Maupas Jean Cousin père et fils Une famille de peintres au XVIe siècle. Somogy. Paris, 2013, fig. no. 286, 119, 122, 235, 237, 239,.