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Assumption of the Virgin
Marcellus Coffermans · 16th century
Provenance
Ownership history
- Dr. John E. Stillwell, New York, by 1927; sold, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, Dec. 1–3, 1927, no. 244, to Clapp and Graham as agent for Harding [registrar’s records]; George F. Harding, Jr. (d. 1939), Chicago; bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago; offered for sale, Sotheby’s, New York, Dec. 2, 1976, no. 185, withdrawn; ownership transferred to the Art Institute, 1982; accessioned, 1984.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Saint Paul (Minn.) Art Center, The Age of Belief, 1966–67, no. 8.
Literature
Published references
- Walter Cohen, in Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, vol. 7, Leipzig, 1912, p. 172.
- “Pictures Bring Best Prices in Stillwell Sale,”Art News 26, 10 (1927), pp. 1–2.
- Marc Rudolf de Vrij, “Two Reconstructed Triptychs by Marcellus Coffermans and Their Place within His Oeuvre,” Städel-Jahrbuch, n.s., 18 (2001), p. 183 n. 7.
- M[arc] R[udolf] de Vrij, “Sources of Inspiration: A Reconstructed Triptych by Marcellus Coffermans,” Aachener Kunstblätter 62 (1998–2002), pp. 276–77, pl. 6.
- Marc Rudolf de Vrij, Marcellus Coffermans, Amsterdam, 2003, pp.
- 53–54, 65, 157, pl. 27.
- Susan Frances Jones in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 171-74, ill.
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