Virgin and Child by Hans Memling
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Virgin and Child

Hans Memling · c. 1485

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Probably a Spanish convent [according to invoice from Steinmeyer, Paris, June 23, 1913 in curatorial file]. Private collection, Spain, by 1892 [according to Hymans 1894, p. 159, it was lent to the 1892–93 Madrid exhibition by a private owner]. Steinmeyer & Fils, Paris, 1913; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, June 23, 1913 [invoice cited above]; on loan to the Art Institute by 1915; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Madrid, Exposición histórico-Europea, 1892–93.5
  • Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 50, pl. 9.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1934, no. 125.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, The Christmas Story in Art, 1938–39 (no cat.).
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpiece of the Month, Nov. 1941 (no cat.).
  • Art Institute of Chicago, The Art of the Edge: European Picture Frames, 1300–1900, 1986, no. 34.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, New Light on Old Masters: Research on Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute, 26 June—14 September 2008, no cat.

Literature

Published references

  • Henri Hymans, “Notes sur quelques oeuvres d’art conservées
  • en Espagne,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 3rd ser., 12 (1894), pp. 159–60.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings, vol. 2, August 1920, p. 63.
  • Max J. Friedländer, “About Some of Hans Memling’s Pictures in the United States,” Art in America 8 (1920), p. 115.
  • Max J. Friedländer, Von Eyck bis Bruegel: Studien zur Geschichte der niederländischen Malerei, 2nd ed., Berlin, 1921, p. 188.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, and Paintings, May 1922, p. 72.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, 1925, p. 160, no. 2059.
  • 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. 73–74.
  • Max J. Friedländer, Die altniederländische Malerei, vol. 6, Berlin, 1928, pp. 126, 132, nos. 50, 92, pl. 31 (1933.1050); rev. English ed., Early Netherlandish Painting, Brussels and Leiden, 1971, pp. 52, 56, nos. 50, 92, pl. 98.
  • H[ans] V[ollmer], in Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, vol. 24, Leipzig, 1930, p. 376.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, 1932, p. 181.
  • Alfred M. Frankfurter, “Paintings by Hans Memling in American Collections,”

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