National Gallery of Art :: The Collection :: The Martyrdom of Saint Catherine
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Provenance

(Van Diemen Gallery, Berlin).[1] Acquired 1926 in Berlin by Karl Rösler, until 1947.[2] (Van Diemen-Lilienfeld Galleries, New York); sold 1950 Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1952 by exchange to NGA.

[1] The catalogue of the Exposition d'Art flamand ancien (Antwerp, 1930), no. 53, gives the owner as Dr. Benedict; this refers to Curt Benedict who was with the Van Diemen Gallery, part of a group of galleries under the umbrella organization of the Margraf Concern. The initial ownership of the painting by the Van Diemen-Margraf Gallery is verified in a letter of 27 January 1951 from Karl Lilienfeld to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, in NGA curatorial files.

[2] This picture was acquired from Rössler in 1940 by the dealer Walter Paech in Amsterdam. Paech sold the painting to Hans Posse, for Hitler's planned museum in Linz. (See Linz inventory no. 1368, as by Brueghel, National Archives RG260/Boxes 428, 430, copies NGA curatorial files). The records of the Munich Central Collecting Point indicate that the painting was recovered by the Allies and restituted to the Netherlands on 4 March 1946 (See Munich property card #4347/2996, National Archives RG260/Munich Central Collecting Point/Box 501 and Dutch Receipt for Cultural Property no. 8A, dated 7 March 1946, National Archives RG260/Munich Central Collecting Point/Box 288, both copies NGA curatorial files.) The painting was restituted to Rössler on 23 May 1947 (see documentation provided by the Dutch Inspectie Culuurbezit in letter dated 5 February 2002, in NGA curatorial files.)

Exhibition History

1930
Exposition d'Art flamand ancien, Antwerp, 1930, no. 53, as Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
1998
A Collector's Cabinet, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1998, no. 19.
2003
Die Flämische Landschaft 1520-1700, Kulturstiftung Ruhr, Villa Hügel, Essen; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 2003-2004, no. 31, repro.

Bibliography

1931
Michel, Edouard. Bruegel. Paris, 1931: 75, pl. 46.
1932
Glück, Gustav. Bruegels Gemälde. Vienna (1937 ed.): 93, no. 81.
1932
Michel, Edouard. "Hypothèses sur quelques peintures flamandes à propos de Bruegel le Vieux." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 7 (1932): 132, fig. 3.
1935
De Tolnay, Charles. Pierre Bruegel l'Ancien. Brussels, 1935: 97, no. 56.
1936
Glück, Gustav. Das Bruegel Buch. Vienna, 1936: no. 2, repro. 10, 20.
1938
Wetering, Cornelis van de. Die Entwicklung der niederländischen Landschaftsmalerei vom Anfang des 16. Jahrhunderts bis zur Jahrhundertmitte. Berlin, 1938: 79, pl. 5 (diagram).
1951
Glück, Gustav. Pieter Bruegel the Elder. London, 1951: 9, 17, no. 2, repro. (also Vienna, 1951).
1951
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1945-1951. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1951: 202, no. 89, repro., as Landscape with the Martyrdom of St. Catherine of Alexandria by Pieter Bruegel, the Elder.
1959
Gudlaugsson, S. J. "Het Errera-schetsboek en Lucas van Valckenborch." Oud Holland 74 (1959): 129.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 290, repro., as by Pieter Bruegel, the Elder.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 21, as by Pieter Bruegel, the Elder.
1967
Bianconi, Piero. The Complete Paintings of Bruegel. New York, 1967: 87, no. 2, repro. 88.
1968
Gandolfo, Giampaolo, et al. National Gallery Washington. Milan, 1968: 113.
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture: Illustrations (Companion to the Summary Catalogue, 1965). Washington, 1968: 14, repro., as by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
1968
Klein, H. Arthur, and Mina Klein. Peter Bruegel the Elder. Artist of Abundance. New York, 1968: 184.
1968
Koch, Robert A. Joachim Patinir. Princeton, 1968: 9.
1969
Franz, Heinrich Gerhard. Niederländische Landschaftsmalerei im Zeitalter des Manierismus. 2 vols. Graz, 1969: 2: fig. 189.
1971
Wied, Alexander. "Lucas van Valckenborch." Jahrbuch der kunsthistorischen Sammlungen des allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses (Jahrbuch der kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien) 31 (1971): 137.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue (National Gallery of Art). Washington, 1975: 50-51, no. 1101, repro., as by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
1975
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: no. 192, repro.
1977
Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 91-93, fig. 90, text fig. 16, as Landscape with Scenes from the Life of St. Catherine of Alexandria.
1980
Wied, Alexander. Bruegel. Trans. by Anthony Lloyd. London, 1980: 12, fig. 13.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 168, no. 186, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 32, 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: 3-6, repro. 2.

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