
Panels from the High Altar of the Charterhouse of Saint-Honoré, Thuison-les-Abbeville: Virgin and Child
French · c. 1495
Provenance
Ownership history
- Church of the Carthusian monastery of Saint-Honoré, Thuison-les -Abbeville; sold before the church was demolished in 1796, probably in 1790–91 [It is not known when the retable structure was sold or dismembered. The charterhouse was demolished in 1796 after its suppression in1790; Prarond 1871–84, vol. 2, pp. 527, 536–37, 547, 551–52]; purchased directly or at second hand by the Abbé Louis-Victor Cauchy (d. 1828), then curate of Saint-Sepulchre, Abbeville [Delignières 1898, p. 31]; passed at his death to an unknown inhabitant of Abbeville [Delignières 1898, p. 31]; convent of the Ursulines, Abbeville, 1873 [according to Corblet 1873, 1874.]; acquired by Émile Delignières, Abbeville, probably by 1898 Delignières 1898]; Edmond Soyez, Amiens, between 1902 and 1904 [lent to Paris 1904]; Eugène Kraemer, Paris; sold, Georges Petit Galleries, Paris, June 2, 1913, nos. 17–23, to Kleinberger, Paris; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, June 27, 1913 [Kleinberger stock card, Department of European Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Ryerson paid 105,000 fr. for the panels; receipt, Oct. 27, 1913, Art Institute Archives.]; bequeathed to the AIC, 1933.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Paris, Musée du Louvre, Exposition des primitifs français au Palais du Louvre, 1904, no. 353.
- New York, Kleinberger, Loan Exhibition of French Primitives and Objects of Art, 1927, nos. 25–31.
- Detroit Institute of Arts, Seventh Loan Exhibition: French Gothic Art of the Thirteenth to Fifteenth Century, 1928, no. 7 (1933.1059).
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 3.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1934, no. 3.
- Toledo (Ohio) Museum of Art, French and Flemish Primitive Exhibition, 1935, nos. 37–38 (1933.1058, 1933.1054).
- Paris, Galeries nationales, Grand Palais, France 1500: entre Moyen Age et Renaissance, 2010–11, no. 174.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Kings, Queens, and Courtiers: Art in Early Renaissance France, 2011, no. 79.
Literature
Published references
- Jean-François Boitel, Histoire d’Abbeville: Supplément à l’histoire ecclésiastique d’Abbeville du Père Ignace, Bibliothèque Municipale, Abbeville, MS 447, n.d. [late 18th century], vol. 1, fols. 242/8–242/16.
- Ernest Prarond, La Topographie historique et archéologique d’Abbeville, Paris and Abbeville, 1871–84, vol. 1, [p. 356].
- L’Abbé J. Corblet, Hagiographie du diocèse d’Amiens, Amiens, vol. 3, 1873, p. 74; vol. 4, 1874, p. 321. L’Abbé F. A. Lefebvre,
- La Chartreuse de Saint-Honoré à Thuison, près d’Abbeville, Abbeville, 1885, pp. 166–67.
- Émile Delignières, Notice sur plusieurs anciennes peintures inconnues de l’école flamande, Paris, 1898, pp. 5–43.
- Georges H[ulin] de Loo, Bruges 1902: Exposition de tableaux flamands des XIVe, XVe et XVIe siècles; Catalogue critique, Ghent, 1902, pp. 84–85.
- M[ax] J. Friedländer, “Die Bru_gger Leihausstellung von 1902,” Repertorium fu_r Kunstwissenschaft 26 (1903), p. 173.
- “Exposition des primitifs français au Palais du Louvre,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 3rd ser., 31 (1904), pp. 1–7, 36–42.
- M. Soyez, Exposition des primitifs français, au Palais du Louvre et à la Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, 1904, pp. 133–34.
- Henri Bouchot, L’Exposition des primitifs français: La Peinture en France sous les Valois, Paris, 1904–05, pls. 63–64 (1933.1054, 1933.1059).
- Émile Delignières, Souvenirs de l’exposition des primitifs français à
- Paris en 1904: La Part de la Ville d’Abbeville, Amiens, 1905, pp. 18–28.
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