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French 15th Century

Portrait of an Ecclesiastic, c. 1480

Not on View

Medium

tempera and oil on oak

Dimensions

overall: 28.8 x 22.2 cm (11 5/16 x 8 3/4 in.)

framed: 35.6 x 27.9 x 3.2 cm (14 x 11 x 1 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1961.9.54

Artists / Makers

French 15th Century (artist)

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Provenance

Léopold Goldschmidt [1830-1904], Paris, by 1902.[1] (Paul Drey, New York); sold 18 June 1953 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1961 to NGA.

[1] Goldschmidt is cited as the owner in Georges Hulin de Loo, Exposition de tableaux flamands des XIVe, XVe, and XVIe siècles. Catalogue critique, exh. cat., Hôtel du Gouvernement Provincial, Ghent, 1902: 139, no. 381.

[2] A copy of the bill of sale from Paul Drey to Kress is in NGA curatorial files. See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1728.

Associated Names

Drey Gallery, Paul
Goldschmidt, Léopold
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.

Exhibition History

1902: Exposition des primitifs flamands et d'art ancien, Hôtel de Gouvernement Provincial, Bruges, 1902, no.381, as by van der Weyden.

Bibliography

1902: Hulin de Loo, Georges. Exposition de tableaux flamands des XIVe, XVe, et XVIe siècles. Catalogue critique. Exh. cat. Hôtel du Gouvernement Provincial, Bruges. Ghent, 1902: 106, no. 381.

1956: Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1951-56. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida and Fern Rusk Shapley. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1956: 80, no. 28, 81, repro.

1959: Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 331, repro.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 53.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 45, repro.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 134, repro.

1977: Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 243-244, fig. 236.

1979: Sterling, Charles. "La peinture sur panneau picarde et son rayonnement dans le nord de la France au XVe siècle." Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire de l’Art Français (1979): 23-24, fig. 19.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 142, no. 145, color repro., as by French School.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 23, repro.

1994: Girault, Pierre-Gilles. Le maître de Saint Gilles. Peinture et histoire entre France et Flandre au tour de 1500. 2 vols. Saint-Florent-sur-Cher, 1979: 2:40-41.

2009: Conisbee, Philip, et al. French Paintings of the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2009: no. 44, 212-214, color repro.

2024: Rath, Markus. "Grundmuster: Ausdrucksfunktionen des monochromen Hintergrundes im Renaissanceporträt" Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 87, no. 1 (2024): 101, fig. 18.