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Christ Presented to the People
North Netherlandish · c. 1480
Provenance
Ownership history
- Italian art market. Count Contini, Rome, by 1923 [Friedländer 1927]. Roerich Museum, New York, by 1927; sold, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, Mar. 27–28, 1930, no. 64, to Ryerson for $7,000 [exhibited at the Roerich Museum in 1927; Robert Harshe, director of the Art Institute, acted as Ryerson’s agent at the Roerich sale; letter from Harshe to Ryerson, Apr. 1, 1930, Art Institute Archives].; Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago; on loan to the Art Institute from 1930; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Corona Mundi International Art Center (Roerich Museum), Exhibition of Old Masters, 1927, no. 11, as the Master of the Virgo inter Virgines.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 49, as the Master of the Virgo inter Virgines.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1934, no. 124, as the Master of the Virgo inter Virgines.
Literature
Published references
- Max J. Friedländer, Die altniederländische Malerei,, vol. 5, Berlin, 1927, pp. 72–74, 140, no. 53, pl. 35; rev. English ed., Early Netherlandish Painting, Brussels and Leiden,1969, pp. 41–43, 80, no. 53, pl. 35.
- Frank Jewett Mather, Jr., “Roerich Museum to Sell Many Old Masters,” Art News 28, 20 (1930), pp. 4, 27 (ill.).
- Nicholas Roerich Museum, Roerich Museum: A Decade of Activity, 1921–1931, New York, 1931, p. 56.
- Daniel Catton Rich, “An Important Dutch Primitive,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 25 (1931), pp. 34–36, (cover ill.).
- The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, 1932, p. 181, no. 376.30.
- Daniel Catton Rich, “Die Ausstellung ‘Fünf Jahrhunderte der Frühmalerei in Chicago,’” Pantheon 6 (1933), p. 376.
- F[riedrich] Winkler, “Meister der Virgo inter Virgines,” in Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, vol. 37, Leipzig, 1950, p. 346.
- J. Leeuwenberg, “Een werk van den Virgomeester en zijn copieën,” Oud Holland 65 (1950), p. 118.
- Hanns Swarzenski, “An Unknown Bosch,” Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts 53 (1955), p. 7.
- Erwin Panofsky, “Jean Hey’s ‘Ecce Homo’: Speculations about Its Author, Its Donor, and Its Iconography,” Bulletin des Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique 5
- (1956), p. 108.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, 1961, p. 303.
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