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The Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist

Workshop of Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen · c. 1520

Provenance

Ownership history

Duc de Blacas, Paris; sold to Kleinberger, Paris, Feb. 21, 1914; sold to Ryerson, June 18, 1914; Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago; by descent to his wife Carrie Hutchinson Ryerson (1859–1937), Chicago, 1932 [Last Will and Testament of Martin A. Ryerson, Died August 11, 1932, copy in Institutional Archives, Art Institute of Chicago]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1937.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Religious Art from the Fourth Century to the Present Time, Feb. 20–Mar. 7, 1930, cat. 20.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 39.

Literature

Max J. Friedländer, review of Kurt Steinbart, Die Tafelgemälde des Jakob Cornelisz von Amsterdam, in Kunstchronik und Kunstmarkt, n.s., 34 (1923), pp. 605–06.
Kurt Steinbart, “Nachlese im Werke des Jacob Cornelisz,” Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft 5 (1929), p. 256.
Max J. Friedländer, Die altniederländische Malerei, vol. 12, Leiden, 1935, p. 196, no. 275; rev. English ed., Early Netherlandish Painting, Brussels and Leiden, 1975, p. 117, no. 275, pl. 148.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, 1961, pp. 84–85.
K. G. Boon, Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, The Hague, 1978, p. 52, under no. 144. Sutton 1986, p. 49.
Jane L. Carroll, “The Paintings of Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen (1472–1533),” Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina,Chapel Hill, 1987 (Ann Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms, 1988), pp. 307–08, cat. D5, fig. 90.
Martha Wolff in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 184-88, ill.

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