About the Artwork
The Virgin and Child
early 17th century
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German
German
Oil and gilding on oak panel
Unframed: 23 5/8 × 13 1/4 inches (60 × 33.7 cm) Framed: 27 7/8 × 7 11/16 × 3 3/8 inches (70.8 × 19.5 × 8.6 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of James E. Scripps
89.58
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
purchased at an art market (Cologne, Germany) by James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1889-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Detroit Museum of Art, Catalogue of the Scripps Collection. Detroit, 1889, no. 4. [as 15th century Flemish School].
"The Scripps Old Masters," The Collector 2, no. 13 (May 1, 1891): pp. 149-152, p. 150 [as Flemish school, 15th century, “The Virgin, with the Infant Saviour on Her Knee”].
Scripps, James E. Handbook of the Paintings Ancient and Modern Belonging to the Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1895, p. 8.
Detroit Museum of Art, Handbook of Paintings by the Old Masters. Detroit, 1910, pp. 12-14, no. 4 (ill.).
Detroit Institute of Arts, Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Contemporary Arts and Crafts. Detroit, 1920, p. 68, no, 69. [as Flemish, 15th century]
W.H. "A New Name for an Old Painting." Bulletin of the DIA 9, 7 (1927-1928): pp. 86-88 (ill.).
Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, no. 139 (ill.). [as Master of the Life of Mary]
Kuhn, C.L. A Catalogue of German Paintings of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in American Collections. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1936, p. 24, no. 11 (pl. 3). [attributed to Master of the LIfe of Mary]
Friedländer, M. J. Burlington Magazine 69 (1936): p. 44. [as by a Flemish follower of Rogier van der Weyden]
Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts, Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 86, no. 139. [as Master of the Life of Mary]
Fritz, R. "Das Halbfigurenbild in der westdeutschen Tafelmalerei um 1400. Ein Versuch über Herkunft und Deutung." Zeitschrift fur Kunstwissenschaft 5 (1951): p. 178 (fig. 16).
Stange, A. Deutsche Malerei der Gotik, vol. 5: Köln in der Zeit von 1450 bis 1515. Munich, 1952, p. 35.
Stange, A. Kritisches Verzeichnis der deutschen Tafelbilder vor Dürer, vol. 1: Köln, Niederrhein, Westfalen, Hamburg, Lübeck und Niedersachsen, Munich, 1967, p. 65, no. 181. [attributed to Cologne, Master of the Life of Mary]
Zehnder, F.G. Der Meister der HI. Veronika. Ph.D. diss. Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität. Bonn, Germany, 1981, pp. 49-50, note 267.
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German, The Virgin and Child, early 17th century, oil and gilding on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of James E. Scripps, 89.58.
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