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The Adoration of the Magi
Workshop of Cornelis Engebrechtsz. · 1515-25
Provenance
Ownership history
- Böhler and Steinmeyer, Berlin, May 25, 1914; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago [Martin Ryerson’s notebook, Art Institute Archives]; on loan to the Art Institute by 1920; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 43, as Lucas van Leyden.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1934, no. 121, as Lucas van Leyden.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpiece of the Month, Nov. 1938 (no cat.).
- Art Institute of Chicago, The Christmas Story in Art, 1938–39, no cat. no.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces of Religious Art, 1954, pp. 16–17.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Glad Tidings of Great Joy, 1993–94 (no cat.).
- Leiden, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Lucas van Leyden en de Renaissance, March 17-June 26, 2011, no. 14.
Literature
Published references
- “A Christmas Broadside for Boys and Girls,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 10 (1916), n.pag. (ill.).
- Wilhelm R. Valentiner, “Gemälde des Lucas van Leyden in Amerika,” Der Kunstwanderer (Nov. 1919), pp. 118–19.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings, vol. 2, August 1920, p. 62.
- Martin Conway, The Van Eycks and Their Followers, London, 1921, pp. 471–72, pl. 24.
- Max J. Friedländer, Von Eyck bis Bruegel, 2nd ed., Berlin, 1921, p. 200, fig. 28; Eng. ed., London, 1956, p. 422, pl. 8.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, and Paintings, May 1922, p. 71.
- Ludwig Baldass, Die Gemälde des Lucas van Leyden, Vienna, 1923, pp. 18–19, 29–30, pl. 3.
- Friedrich Winkler, Die altniederländische Malerei: Die Malerei in Belgien und Holland von 1400–1600, Berlin, 1924, p. 264.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, 1925, p. 160, no. 2051.
- Willy Burger, Die Malerei in den Niederländen von 1400–1550, Munich, 1925, p. 155.
- Rose Mary Fischkin, “Martin A. Ryerson Collection of Paintings and Sculpture, XIII to XVII Century, Loaned to The Art Institute of Chicago,” unpub. MS, 1926, Ryerson Library, The Art Institute of Chicago, pp. 102–05, no. 2051.
- Max J. Friedländer, “A Painting by Lucas van Leyden,” Art News 26, 28 (1928), p. 12.
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