
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Portrait of a Donor (recto); Saint Anthony of Padua (verso)
Hans Memling · c. 1485
Provenance
Ownership history
- Linker, Bilbao, 1927 [Friedländer annotated a photograph now at the R.K.D., The Hague Linker / Bilbao / III 1928 / nach Restaur[ierung]]. Hugo Perls, Berlin, 1928 [according to Friedländer’s annotations to another photograph at the R.K.D., The Hague]; sold to Arthur Sachs, New York, 1929 [letter from Friedländer to Arthur Sachs, Mar. 16, 1951, and letter from Sachs to Waltraut van der Rohe, Mar. 2, 1957; both in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute, 1953.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, The Christmas Story in Art, 1938–39 (no cat.).
- Art Institute of Chicago, The Art of the Edge: European Picture Frames, 1300–1900, 1986, no. 34.
Literature
Published references
- Julius Held, “A Diptych by Memling,” Burlington Magazine 68 (1936), pp. 176–79, pls. A–B.
- “Memling’s Madonna,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 35 (1941), p. 116 (ill. 1953.467; cover, ill. 1933.1050).
- Thomas Bodkin, Dismembered Masterpieces: A Plea for Their Reconstruction by International Action, London, 1945, p. 29.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, A Picture Book: Masterpieces of Painting, XV and XVI Centuries in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, 1946, pp. 6–8 (ill. 1933.1050).
- “The Face of Christ: A Portfolio of His Image through the Ages,” Fortune 33, 1 (1946), p. 143 (ill. 1933.1050).
- Harry B. Wehle and Margaretta Salinger, A Catalogue of Early Flemish, Dutch and German Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1947, p. 71.
- Helen Parker, The Christmas Story: Illustrated from the Collections of the Art
- Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1949, n.pag. (ill.).
- “A Tour of the World of Art in 150 Masterpieces,” Masterpieces 1 (1950), p. 50.
- Charles Fabens Kelley, “Chicago: Record Years,” Art News 51, 4 (1952), p. 107.
- Heinrich Schwarz, “The Mirror in Art,” Art Quarterly 15 (1952), p. 100.
- Leo van Puyvelde, La Peinture flamande au siècle des Van Eyck, Paris and New York, 1953, p. 266.
Comparables
Related holdings by the same hand

Virgin and Child
Art Institute of Chicago

The Golden Wall
Art Institute of Chicago

The Emperor Maximilian Presented to Christ by His Patron Saints
Art Institute of Chicago

Blue Rhythm
Art Institute of Chicago

Apollo and Marsyas
Art Institute of Chicago

Eight Boys
Art Institute of Chicago

Growth
Art Institute of Chicago

Christ Carrying the Cross
Art Institute of Chicago
Museum holdings, not sale records. Auction results are only shown when a licensed price source is connected.
Research assistant