Two Kings and a Woman Leaving an Elaborate Palace, 1503/1508

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 18.4 x 9.2 cm (7 1/4 x 3 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund and Gift of Dian Woodner

Accession Number

2008.76.1

Artists / Makers

Jan Gossaert (artist) Netherlandish, c. 1478 - 1532

Image Use

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Provenance

Marquis de Valori. (sale, 25-26 November 1902, no. 2 , as Albrecht Altdorfer). Eugène Rodrigues (sale, Frederik Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, 12-13 July 1921, no. 31). Curtis O. Baer [1898-1976], New Rochelle, NY; Dr. and Mrs. George Baer; purchased 2008 by NGA.

Associated Names

Baer, Curtis O.
Baer, George M., Dr. and Mrs.
Muller & Co., Frederik
Rodrigues, Eugene
Valori, Marquis de

Exhibition History

1958: Drawings from the Collection of Curtis O. Baer, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, 1958, no. 19 (cat. by Agnes Mongan).

1965: Jan Gossaert genaamd Mabuse, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, and Groeningemuseum, Bruges, 1965, no. 50.

1985: Master Drawings from Titian to Picasso : the Curtis O. Baer Collection, NGA, Indianapolis Museum of Art, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Frederick Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, 1985 - 1987, no. 23 (cat. by Eric M. Zafran).

2010: Man, Myth, and Sensual Pleasures: Jan Gossart's Renaissance--the Complete Works. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2010, no. 83 (as Two Kings and a Woman(?) Leaving a Palace [The Idolatry of King Solomon])(color repro.).

2016: Recent Acquisitions of Dutch and Flemish Drawings, NGA, 2016.

Bibliography

1961: Osten, Gert von der. "Studien zu Jan Gossaert." De Artibus Opuscula XL. Essays in Honor of Erwin Panofsky. 2 vols. New York, 1961: 454.

1962: Winkler, Friedrich. "Aus der ersten Schaffenszeit des Jan Gossaert." Pantheon 20 (1962): 151, 155, fig. 8.

1965: Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert. "Jan Gossaert genaamd Mabuse." Master Drawings 3, Winter, 1965: 404.

1968: Herzog, Sadja Jacob. "Jan Gossaert called Mabuse (ca. 1478-1532): A Study of his Chronology with a Catalogue of his Works." Ph.D. diss., Bryn Mawr College, 1968: vol. 2: 412-413, vol. 3, pl. 109.