Inscription
on the leg of the figure in lower right: N V S
Provenance
Léon Tabourier; (his estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 20-22 June 1898, no. 193, as Ecole Allemande); (Durand-Ruel et Cie, Paris). (F. Kleinberger Galleries, Paris), in 1913. André J. Seligmann [1898-1945], Paris, by 1938;[1] his heirs; (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, New York, 27 January 2000, no. 49); purchased jointly by (Bernheimer, Munich), (Otto Nauman, New York), and (Alfred Bader, Milwaukee); purchased 6 June 2001 by NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1913
- Stadtisches Museum Dortmund, 1913.
- 1934
- Tafelbilder des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts, Kunsthaus, Zurich, 1934, no. 82, pl. XXXIII, as Low German (Nikolaus van Soest?).
- 1936
- Tentoonstelling van Oude Kunst uit het bezit van den Internationalen Handel, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1936, no. 5, as by Rhenish School, attributed to Nikolaus van Soest.
- 1938
- Exposition de Paysages de 1400 à 1900, André Seligmann, Paris, 1938, no. 16, repro., as by Master NVS.
- 1951
- On display with the permanent collection, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1951-1999.
- 1960
- Exposition des 700 tableaux de toutes les écoles antérieurs à 1800 tirés des réserves du département des peintures, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1960, no. 4, as Ecole du Rhein inférieur.
Bibliography
- 1918
- Heise, Carl Georg. "Norddeutsche Malerei: Studien zu ihrer Entwicklungsgeschichte im 15. Jahrhundert von Köln bis Hamburg." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kiel. Leipzig, 1918: 143, under no. 29.
- 1938
- Schöne, Wolfgang. Dieric Bouts und seine Schule. Berlin and Leipzig, 1938: 122.
- 1954
- Stange, Alfred. Deutsche Malerei der Gotik, Munich and Berlin, 1954: 53-54, fig. 89.
- 1962
- Adhémar, Hélène. Le Musée national du Louvre, Paris: Les primitifs flamands, Corpus. Brussels,1962: 1:37, no. 7, as Rhenish School.
- 1967
- Stange, Alfred. Kritisches Verzeichnis der deutschen Tafelbilder vor Dürer. Munich, 1967: 1:117, no. 373.
- 1981
- Catalogue sommaire illustré des peintures du musée du Louvre. II: Italie, Espagne, Allemagne, Grand-Bretagne et divers. Paris, 1981: 32, repro.
- 1999
- Associated Press. "France Returns Art Plundered from Jews by Nazis in WWII." Las Vegas Review-Journal (December 15, 1999): 13-A, repro.
- 2000
- Auer, James. "Fifteenth-century Masterpiece May Go Home After Sixty-Year Odyssey." Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (April 2, 2000): E1, E7, color repro.
- 2000
- Hughes, Robert. "Of 'Psycho' Beds and Other Stellar Sales." Wall Street Journal 235, no. 95 (May 12, 2000): W16, color repro.
- 2004
- Hand, John Oliver. National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection. Washington and New York, 2004: 68-69, no. 50, color repro.
- 2009
- Mack, Rosamund E. "When Armor Was Art: Exploring Images of Armor in the National Gallery of Art Collections." Washington, 1990: color repro.
- 2016
- Warner-Johnson, Tim, and Jeremy Howard, eds. Colnaghi: Past, Present and Future: An Anthology. London, 2016: 178-179, color fig. 3; 184-185, color plate 1; 212-213, color repro.
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