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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 8, 2015 | Christie's | London | Old Master & British Paintings Evening Auction | 11 | $****** - ****** | The Virgin Mary nursing the Christ Child | |||
Jan 25, 2012 | Christie's | New York | Old Master Paintings Part I | 23 | $****** - ****** | The Virgin Mary nursing the Christ Child |
paintings
17.4 cm (6.85 in)
oil and gold on oak panel, circular
Ricardo (Richard) Traumann Collection, Madrid. Baron Laurent Meeus (1872-1950), Brussels. with Agnew’s, London, from whom purchased by Captain and Mrs. Vivian Bulkeley-Johnson, Churchill, Oxon (The Mount Trust), 7 December 1950. Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 1 December 1978, lot 111.
Private collection, Antwerp, from whom purchased in 2007 by the following, Anonymous sale [Property from a
Private Collection];
Christie’s, New York, 25 January 2012, lot 23
Brussels, Exposition d’Art Ancien , 1941-1942, no. 23. Bruges, Musée Communal Groeninge, L’Art Flamand dans les collections britanniques , August-September 1956, no. 12. Bruges, Groeningemuseum, Hans Memling: Five Centuries of Fact and Fiction , 12 August-15 November 1994, p. 136, no. 35 (catalogue by D. de Vos with contributions by D. Marachal and W. Le Loup). Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, on loan, September 2007-August 2010. Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Hans Memling’s Virgin Nursing the Christ Child and the Early Netherlandish Tondo , 19 December 2009-17 March 2010, fig. 2 (catalogue by L. DeWitt). Bruges, Memlingmuseum, 2013-2014, on loan. Rome, Scuderie del Quirinale, Memling. Rinascimento fammingo , 11 October 2014-18 January 2015, no. 18 (catalogued by T-H Borchert)
F. Winkler, Der Meister von Flémalle und Rogier van der Weyden. Studien zu ihren Werken und zur Kunst ihrer Zeit mit mehreren Katalogen zu Rogier , Strassburg, 1913, pp. 21-2 and p. 22 under note 3. M.J. Friedländer, Die Altniederländische Malerei , VI: Hans Memling und Gerard David , Berlin, 1928, no. 51 (formerly Traumann Collection, present whereabouts unknown). M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting , VIa, Hans Memlinc and Gerard David , trans. H. Norden from Die Altniederländische Malerei , [Berlin and Leyden, 1928], New York and Washington, 1971, no. 51, [incorrectly listed in the 1971 edition as in the Cleveland Museum of Art]. F. Grossmann, ‘Flemish Paintings at Bruges’, The Burlington Magazine , IC, no. 646, January 1957, p. 4. D. Sutton, ‘The Mount Trust Collection’, The Connoisseur , October 1960, p. 105, fig. 12. J. Bialostocki, Les Musées de Pologne (Gdansk, Kraków, Warszawa), Les Primitifs Flamands, Brussels, 1966, p. 39, under no. 118, F; I b, no. 11. G.T. Faggin and M. Corti, L’opera completa di Memling , Milan, 1969, p. 106, no. 72. D. de Vos, Hans Memling: The Complete Works , Antwerp, 1994, p. 294, no. 82. M.W. Ainsworth and K. Christiansen, From van Eyck to Bruegel, Early Netherlandish Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York, 1998, p. 236. H. Mund, C. Stroo, N. Goetghebeur, H. Nieuwdorp , The Mayer Van den Bergh Museum, Antwerp. Corpus of Fifteenth Century Painting in the Southern Netherlands and the Principality of Liege , XX, Brussels, 2003, pp. 51-53. T.-H. Borchert, Memling , Florence, 2005, p. 19. B. Lane, Hans Memling: Master Painter in Fifteenth-Century Bruges , London and Turnhout, 2009, p. 331, no. B12, fig. 271, as ‘Hans Memling (?)’. L. DeWitt, Hans Memling’s Virgin Nursing the Christ Child and the Early Netherlandish Tondo , Philadelphia, 2009, passim . T.-H. Borchert, ‘Review, Hans Memling: Master Painter in Fifteenth Century Bruges’, The Burlington Magazine , February 2010, pp. 102-3. J. Scheel, Das altniederländische Stifterbild: Emotionsstrategien des Sehens und der Selbsterkenntnis , Berlin, 2014, pp. 366-7
