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Virgin and Child in a Landscape

1531

Jan Gossaert

(Flemish, c1475/78-1532)

and an Anonymous Landscape Painter

(Flemish)

Flanders, 16th century

Oil on wood

Framed: 68 x 56 x 4.5 cm (26 3/4 x 22 1/16 x 1 3/4 in.); Unframed: 47.7 x 36.6 cm (18 3/4 x 14 7/16 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1972.47

Location

118 Italian Renaissance

Description

Among the first northern European artists to study in Rome, Gossaert returned north to serve in various German and Flemish courts, incorporating Italian Renaissance ideas. Gossaert also painted the frame, including the Latin inscription: "Mother, may your contemplation be our reconciliation." The patron is likely Mencía de Mendoza, a Spanish noblewoman, one of the most important art collectors and intellectuals of the early 1500s.

Inscriptions

Inscription

Signed lower left: "1531 / JOANES / MALBO [...] / PÏGEBAT"

Provenance
Private collection, Madrid; [Wildenstein & Co., New York, 1929];
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1944, on long-term loan to The Detroit Institute of Arts since 1950 (sold, Parke-Bernet, New York, May 18, 1972, no. 73, to the Cleveland Museum of Art).
Citations
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 122 archive.org
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. Reproduced: p.16; Mentioned: p.17-18
George, Philippe. Art et Patrimoine en Wallonie des Origines à 1789: Essai de Synthèse à la Lumière des Collections Américaines et Européennes. Namur: Institut du Patrimoine Wallon, 2017. Mentioned: p. 280
Exhibition history

Los Angeles Museum, 1933: "A Collection of European Paintings from the Early Renaissance to the Modernists," cat. no. 9, illus.

Toledo(Ohio) Museum of Art, 1935: "French and Flemish Primitives," cat. no. 16, illus.

New York, M Knoedler and Co., 1942: "French and Flemish Primitives, " illus. opp. p. 84.

CMA, March 1973: " Year in Review 1972," cat.: Bull., LX (March 1973), CMA 1973: "Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century"

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (10/5/2010 - 1/17/2011) and the National Gallery, London (2/23/2011 - 5/30/2011): "Man, Myth, and Sensual Pleasures: Jan Gossaert's Renaissance"

Year in Review: 1972. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973).

Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art (July 10-September 2, 1973).

Man, Myth, and Sensual Pleasures: Jan Gossaert's Renaissance. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (October 5, 2010-January 17, 2011); National Gallery, London, London WC2N 5DN (February 23-May 30, 2011).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1972.47