Saint Veronica [obverse]

Hans Memling (artist)
Netherlandish, active c. 1465 - 1494
Saint Veronica [obverse], c. 1470/1475
oil on panel
painted surface: 30.3 x 22.8 cm (11 15/16 x 9 in.) Overall (panel): 31.2 x 24.4 cm (12 5/16 x 9 5/8 in.) framed: 38.9 x 31.8 x 3.8 cm (15 5/16 x 12 1/2 x 1 1/2 in.)
Samuel H. Kress Collection
1952.5.46.a
Not on View

From the Tour: Netherlandish Painting in the 1400s
Object 8 of 9

1872	Crowe, J. A., and G. B. Cavalcaselle. The Early Flemish Painters: Notices of their Lives and Works. 2d ed. London, 1872: 299.
1916	Friedländer, Max J. Von Eyck bis Bruegel. Berlin, 1916: 178.
1928	Friedländer 1928, 6:125, no. 46 (vol. 6a, 1971: 52, 130, no. 46, pl. 95).
1930	Kunstauktion 4, no. 28 (13 July 1930):2, repro.
1930	"La vie artistique à l'étranger." Le Bulletin de l'art ancien et moderne 58 (1930): 416, repro. 415.
1930	Friedländer, Max, J. In Unknown Masterpieces in Public and Private Collections. Ed. by W.R. Valentiner. London, 1930: unpaginated, no. 27 [erroneously cited as no. 37 in the published systematic catalogue entry], repro.
1930	Mayer, August L. "Die Ausstellung der Sammlung `Schloss Rohoncz' in der Neuen Pinakothek, München." Pantheon 6 (1930): 297, repro. 305.
1937	Heinemann, Rudolf. Stiftung Sammlung Schloss Rohoncz. 2 vols. Lugano-Castagnola, 1 (1937): 104-105, no. 281, pl. 68.
1939	Bazin, Germain. Memling. Paris, 1939: pls. 10, 11.
1942	Baldass, Ludwig von. Hans Memling. Vienna, 1942: 20, 42, no. 57, fig. 57.
1949	Alexander, H. G. "The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection at Lugano." The Connoisseur 123 (1949): 30, fig. VI.
1950	Krönig, Wolfgang. "Geertgens Bild Johannes des Täufers." Das Münster 3 (1950): 198.
1951	Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Interpreting Masterpieces." Art News 50 (1951): 102, 111, repros. 102, 105.
1952	Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Interpreting Masterpieces: Twenty-four Paintings from the Kress Collection." Art News Annual 1952:102,111, repro. 105
1952	Sterling, Charles. La Nature morte de l'antiquité à nos jours. Paris, 1952: 27, 127.
1953	Panofsky, ENP 1953, 498.
1954	Ferguson, George. Signs and Symbols in Christian Art. New York, 1954: pl. XI.
1957	Shapley, Fern Rusk. Comparisons in Art: A Companion to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. London, 1957 (reprinted 1959): pl. 122, 132
1959	Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 285, repro.
1960	Flanders in the Fifteenth Century: Art and Civilization. Exh. cat. Detroit Institute of Arts, 1960: 144.
1960	Broadley, Hugh T. Flemish Painting in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1960 (Booklet Number Five in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): 5, 22, color repro. of 1952.5.46.b.
1961	Seymour, Charles. Art Treasures for America: An Anthology of Paintings & Sculpture in the Samuel H. Kress Collection. London, 1961: 62-63, 213, pls. 55, 56.
1962	Neugass, Fritz. "Die Auflösung der Sammlung Kress." Die Weltkunst 32 (1962): 4.
1962	Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Treasures from the National Gallery of Art, New York, 1962: 56, color repro.
1962	Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Treasures from the National Gallery of Art, New York, 1962: 56.
1963	Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 304, repro.
1965	Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 89
1966	Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 1:84, color repro.
1967	Kermer, Wolfgang. Studien zum Diptych. in der sakralen Malerei von den Anfängen bis zur Mitte des sechzehnten Jahrh. 2 vols. Ph.D. diss., Eberh.-Karls-Univ., Tübingen, 1967: 1:184-187, 292-294,; 2:139-141, no.139, figs.178, 179.
1968	European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 78, repro.
1969	Corti, Maria, and Giorgio T. Faggin. L'opera completa di Memling. Milan, 1969: 104, no. 59b. pl. 51.
1971	McFarlane, K. B. Hans Memling. Ed. Edgar Wind. Oxford, 1971: 45, fig. 132.
1975	European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 232, repro. 233.
1977	Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 55-57, figs. 50, 51, as St. Veronica Holding the Sudarium; The Chalice of St. John the Evangelist in a Niche.
1978	Chastel, André. "La Véronique." Revue de l'Art no. 40/41 (1978): 75, 82.
1979	Rosenbaum, Allen. Old Master Paintings from the Collection of Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza. Exh. cat. International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington, 1979: 116.
1981	Brown, Clifford M. "Un tableau perdu de Lorenzo Costa et la collection de Florimond Robertet." Revue de l'Art no. 52 (1981): 27-28, fig. 4.
1981	Campbell, Lorne. "Notes on Netherlandish pictures in the Veneto in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries." The Burlington Magazine 123 (1981): 471, fig. 15.
1981	Fletcher, Jennifer. "Marcantonio Michiel, `che ha veduto assai.'" The Burlington Magazine 123 (1981): 604-606.
1981	Hull, Vida Joyce. Memlinc's Paintings from the Hospital of Saint John in Bruges. New York and London, 1981: 123-128, 140-141, figs. 44, 45.
1983	[Peter Eikemeier], Alte Pinakothek München. Erläuterung zu den ausgestellten Gemälden. Munich, 1983: 341.
1983	Shearman, John. "A drawing for Raphael's `St. George.'" The Burlington Magazine 125 (1983): 25.
1983	Shearman, John. The Early Italian Pictures in the Collection of her Majesty the Queen. Cambridge, 1983: 210.
1983	Sonnenburg, Hubertus von. Raphael in der Alten Pinakothek. Exh. cat. Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich, 1983: 107-108.
1984	Gould, Cecil. Review of The Early Italian Pictures in the Collection of her Majesty the Queen by John Shearman. In Apollo 119 (1984): 225.
1984	Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 130, no. 118, color repro.
1985	European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 267, repro.
1986	Hand, John Oliver and Martha Wolff. Early Netherlandish Painting. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1986: 193-201, color repro. 194, repro. 195.
2004	Neverov, Oleg Yakovlevich. Great Private Collections of Imperial Russia. New York and St. Petersburg, 2004: 126-128, ill. 161.

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