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Hans Memling: The Virgin Mary nursing the Christ child   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Hans Memling  (circa 1433
date QS:P,+1433–00–00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
–1494)  wikidata:Q106851
 
Hans Memling
Alternative names
Hans Memlinc, Jan van Memmelynghe
Description Southern Netherlandish painter and drawer
Date of birth/death circa 1433
date QS:P,+1433-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
 11 August 1494 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Seligenstadt near Aschaffenburg (?) Bruges
Work location
Cologne (?), City of Brussels, Bruges (1466–1494)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q106851
Title
The Virgin Mary nursing the Christ child
label QS:Len,"The Virgin Mary nursing the Christ child"
label QS:Lde,"Die Jungfrau Maria, das Christkind stillend"
Description
English: A tondo depicting a graceful Virgin Mary nursing the Christ Child set before a gilded background
Date between circa 1485 and circa 1494
date QS:P571,+1450-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1485-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1494-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
?
Medium oil and gold on oak wood
Dimensions diameter: 17.4 cm (6.8 in)
dimensions QS:P2386,17.4U174728
Private collection
institution QS:P195,Q768717
Object history
  • Ricardo (Richard) Traumann Collection, Madrid.
  • Baron Laurent Meeus (1872-1950), Brussels.
  • with Agnew’s, London, from whom purchased by Captain and Mrs. Vivian Bulkeley-Johnson, Churchill, Oxon (The Mount Trust), 7 December 1950.
  • Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 1 December 1978, lot 111.
  • Private collection, Antwerp
  • Anonymous sale [Property from a Private Collection]; Christie’s, New York, 25 January 2012, lot 23 (bought in)
  • with Christie's, London, offered for sale 9 December 2015, lot 11 (withdrawn)
Exhibition history
Notes
English: The gilded frame, here cropped out of the image for copyright reasons (the photographer has rights), is an integral part of the panel.
  • The tondo received light cleaning after its Rome 2014 exhibition.
  • Memling's ultimate source for the composition is recognized to be the near life-size Virgin and Child in the Städelmuseum, Frankfurt, one of the three Flémalle Panels painted circa 1428-30 by the Master of Flémalle (thought to be Robert Campin).
  • There is an earlier version with a landscaped background in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  • A third version in the Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp, is a workshop copy.
  • The attribution of the present work as an autograph work of Memling is not universal. Barbara Lane lists it as disputed. Dirk de Vos lists it as an autograph in his catalogue raisonné. Hélene Mund et al. and Lloyd DeWitt are recent authors who acknowledge it as Memling's work.
  • A blog that amusingly notes the implausibly elevated breast ... (archived)
References
  • B. Lane, Hans Memling: Master Painter in Fifteenth-Century Bruges, London and Turnhout, 2009, p. 331, no. B12, fig. 271, as ‘Hans Memling (?)’.
  • D. de Vos, Hans Memling: The Complete Works, Antwerp, 1994, p. 294, no. 82.
  • L. DeWitt, Hans Memling’s Virgin Nursing the Christ Child and the Early Netherlandish Tondo, Philadelphia, 2009, passim.
  • H. Mund, C. Stroo, N. Goetghebeur, H. Nieuwdorp, The Mayer Van den Bergh Museum, Antwerp. Corpus of Fifteenth Century Painting in the Southern Netherlands and the Principality of Liege, XX, Brussels, 2003, pp. 51-53.
Source/Photographer Christie's, LotFinder: entry 5958386 (sale 10391, lot 11, London, 8 December 2015):
English: dezoomified image uploaded without further processing. Cropped of its gilded frame in paint.net.
Other versions
  • English: Christie's 2012 sale image
    English: Christie's 2012 sale image
  • English: An earlier version with a landscaped background in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
    English: An earlier version with a landscaped background in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • English: A later workshop copy, circa 1490. Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp.
    English: A later workshop copy, circa 1490. Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp.

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