Corpus of Christ, from the Altarpiece of the Crucifixion

1. Commissioned by Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, for the Chartreuse de Champmol, Dijon, France, 1390, and installed there on the high altar of the Saint-Jean Chapel by Melchior Broederlam, 1399 [see Müller 1966]; removed to the abbey of Saint-Bénigne, Dijon, 1792 [see Musée de Beaux-Arts de Dijon 1960; Goetz 1950, p. 159; and Cleveland 2004 exh. cat.]; transferred to the Musée de Beaux-Arts de Dijon, 1818/19 [see Goetz 1950, p. 159; Chabeuf 1910, p. 123; Musée de Beaux-Arts de Dijon 1960, which gives the date as 1818; and Cleveland 2004 exh. cat., which gives the date as 1819]. Paul Buffet, Dijon, after 1841 [see Goetz 1950, pp. 159-60; Vitry 1907, pp. 4–5; and Gillerman 2001, p. 22]; given to François Dameron (d. 1900), Dijon, and held in his possession until 1900 [see Goetz 1950, p. 160; Vitry 1907, p. 5; and Chabeuf 1910, p. 122]; by descent to his widow (d. 1906), Dijon [see sources cited above]; sold to a second-hand dealer (“brocanteur”), Dijon, 1906 [see Goetz 1950, p. 160]. Marcel Bing, Paris, by 1907 [see Vitry 1907 and Gillerman 2001, p. 22]; sold to Bertha Honoré Palmer (d. 1918), Chicago, 1910 [see letter from Marcel Bing to Bertha Honoré Palmer, 13 May 1910, in curatorial file]; by descent to her son, Honoré Palmer, Chicago; given to the Art Institute, 1944.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Musée de Beaux-Arts de Dijon, Palais des ducs de Bourgogne, Le grand siècle des Ducs de Bourgogne, 2 June – 18 July 1951, cat. 118.
• Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Bourgondische Pracht van Philips de Stoute tot Philips de Schone, 28 July – 1 October 1951, cat. 176.
• Brussels, Palais des Beaux–Arts, Le siècle de Bourgogne, 13 October – 16 December 1951, cat. 164.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Medieval Decorative Arts from Chicago Collections, 2 October 1985 - 5 January 1986.
• Moscow, State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Decorative-Applied Art from Late Antiquity to the Late Gothic Style, 14 May - 14 July 1990, and the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, 14 August - 14 October 1990, no. 57.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Van Eyck’s ‘Annunciation’: The Meeting of Heaven and Earth, 10 July – 21 September 1997.
• Musée des Beaux-Arts of Dijon and The Cleveland Museum of Art, Art from the Court of Burgundy: The Patronage of Philip the Bold and John the Fearless, 1364–1419, 2004-2005, cat. 69.
• Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, The Road to Van Eyck, 13 October 2012 - 10 February 2013, no. 23.

• Henri Chabeuf, "Compte rendu des travaux de la Commission Départementale des Antiquités de la Côte-d’Or du 15 novembre 1907 au 1er julliet 1908," Mémoires de la Commission Départementale des Antiquités de la Côte-d’Or 15 (1906-10), pp. 122–24, ill. opp. p. 124.
• Paul Vitry, “Le Christ de Jacques de Baerze,” Annales du XXe Congrès archéologique et historique de Belge 1 (1907), p. 1 ff.
• Paul Vitry, “Travaux des Sociétés savantes,” Revue de l’art chrétien 4, 3 (1908), p. 199.
• Domien Roggen, “De Twee Retabels van de Baerze te Dijon,” Gentsche Bijdragen tot de Kunstgeschiedenis 1 (1934), pp. 98 n. 6, 99–100.
• “Gothic Sculpture for Chicago,” Antiques 50, 1 (1946), p. 52 (ill.).
• Oswald Goetz, “Der Gekreuzigte des Jacques de Baerze,” Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von C. G. Heise zum 28 Juni 1950 (Berlin, 1950), p. 158 ff.
• Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, Catalogues des Sculptures (Dijon, 1960), p. 10, no. 4.
• Theodore Müller, Sculpture in the Netherlands, Germany, France, and Spain, 1400–1500, trans. by Elaine and William Robson Scott (Baltimore, 1966), p. 13.
• Erwin Panofsky, Early Netherlandish Painting, Its Origins and Character, reprint (London, 1966), pp. 79, 391 n. 3.
• Colin Eisler, “The Golden Christ of Cortona and the Man of Sorrows in Italy, Part One,” Art Bulletin 51, 2 (1969), p. 112, fig. 5.
• Wiltraud Mersmann, “Jacques de Baerze und Claus Sluter,” Aachner Kunstblätter 39 (1969), pp. 153–55, figs. 7, 8.
• Kathleen Morand, Claus Sluter: Artist at the Court of Burgundy (London, 1991), pp. 60, 175 n. 36, 325–26.

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