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West Building Main Floor, Gallery 39

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    alabaster with traces of polychromy

  • Credit Line

    Patrons' Permanent Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 42 x 50 x 23.5 cm (16 9/16 x 19 11/16 x 9 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1990.13.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Unidentified collection, Salamanca, Spain, late nineteenth century; private collection, Madrid; Robert Koeber, Hamburg, shortly before 1929;[1] (Dr. W.A. Luz, Berlin); acquired 1948 by Anthony Geber, Berlin, later Chevy Chase, Maryland;[2] gift to NGA, 1990.
[1] Early provenance is given by Julius Baum, "Vesperbild aus dem Kreise Rogiers van der Weyden," Pantheon 4 (1929): 562.
[2] Anthony Geber to Alison Luchs, 1 June 1989, in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1961

  • Everhart Museum, Scranton, Pennsylvania, 1961-1970.

1970

  • Stabat Mater. Maria unter dem Kreuz in der Kunst um 1400, Cathedral, Salzburg, 1970, no. 47 (text by Dieter Grossmann).

2009

  • Rogier van der Weyden, 1400-1464: Master of Passions, Municipal Museum Vander Kelen-Mertens, Leuven, 2009, no. 75, repro.

Bibliography

1929

  • Baum, Julius. "Vesperbild aus dem Kreise Rogiers van der Weyden." Pantheon 4 (1929): 565-569, repros. 564, 565, 569.

1966

  • Müller, Theodor. Sculpture in the Netherlands, Germany, France and Spain, 1400-1500. Pelican History of Art. Translated by Elaine and William Robson Scott. Baltimore, 1966: 83-84.

1969

  • Kutal, Albert. "Les problèmes limitrophes de la sculpture techèque au tournant de 1400." Sbornik Praci Filosoficke Fakulty Berenske University. Rada Umenovedna 18 (1969): 19.

1988

  • Jopek, Norbert. Studien zur Deutschen Alabasterplastik des 15. Jahurhunderts. Worms, 1988: 169 n. 5.

1989

  • Didier, Robert. "Sculptures et retables des anciens Pays-Bas méridionaux des années 1430-1460. Traditions et innovation pour le Haut-Rhin et l'Allemagne du Sud." In Le retable d'Issenheim et la sculpture au nord des Alpes à la fin du Moyen Age. Actes du colloque de Colmar (2-3 November 1987). Colmar, 1989: 64.

1994

  • Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 222, repro.

2000

  • National Gallery of Art Special Issue. Connaissance des Arts. Paris, 2000: repro. 58, 59, 61.

2012

  • Teget-Welz, Manuel and Matthias Weniger. “Ars nova in Stein und Holz: Niclaus Gerhaerts in Frankfurt.” Kunstchronik 65, no.1 (2012): 35-42, esp. 39 fig. 3 and 41.

Wikidata ID

Q63860654

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