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Saint Catherine
Jean Bellegambe · c. 1520
Provenance
Ownership history
- Achillito Chiesa, Milan, by 1925; sold, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, part I, Nov. 27, 1925, no. 42, to Harding; 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bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago; offered for sale, Sotheby’s, New York, Dec. 2, 1976, no. 263, withdrawn; ownership transferred to the AIC, 1982; accessioned, 1983.3
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Saint Paul (Minn.) Art Center, The Age of Belief, 1966–67, no. 6.
Literature
Published references
- Charles Sterling and Edward S. King, “A Bellegambe Triptych Reconstructed,”
- Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 11 (1948), pp. 45–49, figs. 2, 4.
- Sophie Speth Holterhof, “Identification de la Vierge à l’Enfant de Jean Bellegambe,” unpub. typescript, Brussels, Musée Royal d’Art Ancien, 1963.
- Sophie Speth Holterhof, “La Vierge à l’Enfant de Jean Bellegambe,” unpub. typescript, Brussels, Musée Royal d’Art Ancien, 1964.
- Max J. Friedländer, rev. English ed., Early Netherlandish Painting, Brussels and Leiden, vol. 12, 1975, pp. 134–35,146 n. 158.
- Robert Genaille, “L’Oeuvre de Jean Bellegambe,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts,
- 6th ser., 87 (1976), p. 24, no. 23, fig. 21.
- Robert Genaille, “Jean Bellegambe de Douai et la tentation du maniérisme,” in À travers l’art français: Du moyen âge au XXe siècle, Archives de l’art français 25, Paris, 1978, p. 127.
- Susan Frances Jones in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 2-7, ill.
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