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Adoration of the Magi
Jan van Scorel · c. 1519
Provenance
Ownership history
- Probably a member of the Khuen von Belasy family [based on the coats of arms formerly on the picture]. Von Ferstel collection, Vienna, until 1920 [according to Friedländer 1923, p. 606]. Camillo Castiglioni, Vienna, from 1920; sold, Frederick Muller, Amsterdam, November 17–20, 1925, no. 47. Dr. Tietje, Amsterdam, by 1929 [lent by him to 1929 exhibition]. Paul Cassirer and Co., Amsterdam; sold to the Art Institute, 1935.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Düsseldorf, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Alte Malerei aus Privatbesitz, 1929, cat. 18.
- Art Institute of Chicago, The Christmas Story in Art, 1938–39, no cat.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Glad Tidings of Great Joy, 1994–95, no cat.
- Art Institute of Chicago, On the Road to Italy: Early Paintings by Dutch Renaissance Master Jan van Scorel, 1998, no cat.
Literature
Published references
- Max J. Friedländer, review of Kurt Steinbart, Die Tafelgemälde des Jakob Cornelisz van Amsterdam, in Kunstchronik und Kunstmarkt 31/32 (1923), pp. 605–06.
- H. W. Hupp, “Jubiläumsausstellung des Kunstvereins für die Rheinlande und Westfalen: Alte Malerei aus Privatbesitz,” Pantheon 4 (1929), p. 340.
- Kurt Steinbart, “Nachlese im Werke des Jacob Cornelisz,” Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft 5 (1929), pp. 234–36, 257, fig. 48.
- Walter Cohen, “Die Madonna mit musizierenden Engeln von Jakob Cornelisz und einige andere Gemälde des Meisters,” Pantheon 5 (1930), pp. 106, 108 (ill.).
- Max J. Friedländer, Die altniederländische Malerei, vol. 12, Berlin and Leiden, 1935, pp. 110, 195, no. 256, pl. 52; rev. English ed., Early Netherlandish Painting, vol. 12, Brussels and Leiden, 1975, pp. 59, 116, no. 256, pl. 143.
- G. J. Hoogewerff, De Noord-Nederlandsche Schilderkunst, vol. 3, The Hague, 1939, pp. 119–20.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 85.
- Molly A. Faries, “Jan van Scorel, His Style and Its Historical Context,” Ph.D. diss., Bryn Mawr College, 1972, pp. 47–48 n. 26.
- Maryan Wynn Ainsworth and Molly Faries, “Northern Renaissance Paintings: The Discovery of Invention,” Bulletin of the Saint Louis Art Museum 18, 1 (1986), p. 17, fig. 24 (detail).
- Peter C. Sutton, A Guide to Dutch Art in America, Washington, D.C., and Grand Rapids, Mich., 1986, p. 49.
- Jane L. Carroll, “The Paintings of Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen (1472–1533),” Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1987 (Ann Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms, 1988), pp. 398–400, cat. A1, fig. 97.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Glad Tidings of Great Joy, Chicago, 1993, pp. 30–31, 39 (ill.).
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