Pietà, 1450/1475

West Building, Main Floor - Gallery 39

Medium

alabaster with traces of polychromy

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

1990.13.1

Artists / Makers

South Netherlandish 15th Century (artist)

Image Use

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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

Geber, Anthony, Mr. and Mrs.
Koeber, Robert
Luz, W.A. Dr.
Private Collection (NGA Former Owner)
Private Collection (NGA Former Owner)

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.