Juan de Flandes (artist) Hispano-Flemish, active 1496 - 1519 The Adoration of the Magi, c. 1508/1519 oil on panel painted surface: 124.7 x 79 cm (49 1/8 x 31 1/8 in.) Overall (panel): 126 x 82 cm (49 5/8 x 32 5/16 in.) framed: 143.2 x 99.7 x 10.7 cm (56 3/8 x 39 1/4 x 4 3/16 in.) Samuel H. Kress Collection 1961.9.24

From the Tour: Netherlandish and Spanish Altarpieces in the Late 1400s and Early 1500s
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Provenance

Altarpiece of the "capilla mayor (main chapel)," church of San Lázaro, Palencia, commissioned c. 1508, until at least 1761.[1] (Frederick Mont, New York, by 1952);[2] purchased 1953 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1961 to NGA.

[1] Don Sancho de Castilla made the commission. A 1761 document confirming its presence in the church was discovered by Ignace Vandevivere, Primitifs flamands. Corpus. La cathédrale de Palencia et l'église paroissiale de Cervera de Pisuerga (Brussels, 1967), 45.

[2] In 1952 all four panels now in the Gallery were with Frederick Mont in New York; see letter of 28 October 1952 from Chandler R. Post to Mont in the NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

• Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
• Mont, Inc., Frederick
• San Lázaro, Church of

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