Birth of Christ, Master of the Brunswick Diptych, c. 1490 - c. 1500

Identification

Title(s)

Birth of Christ

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-2563

Description

De geboorte van Christus. Maria, drie engelen en een stichter (of Jozef?) knielen in aanbidding bij het Christuskind dat op de mantel van Maria op de grond van de stal ligt. In het landschap op de achtergrond de verkondiging aan de herders.

Creation

Artist

painter: Master of the Brunswick Diptych

Dating

c. 1490 - c. 1500

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on panel

Material

Measurements

support: height 45.3 cm × width 34.8 cm
depth 4.2 cm

Subject

What

adoration of the Christ-child by Mary and Joseph (+ angel(s))

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

Gift of the heirs of C. Hoogendijk, The Hague

Acquisition

gift May-1912

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; collection Cornelis Hoogendijk (1866-1911), The Hague, before 1902;{Henkels 1993, pp. 161-62.} from whom on loan to the museum (SK-C-859), 1907-11; donated to the museum from Hoogendijk’s estate, as Geertgen tot Sint Jans, 1912; on loan to the Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, since 2005

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Relations

Documentation

Early Dutch painting, Albert Châtelet, cat.nr. 88
Cézanne en Van Gogh in het Rijksmuseum voor moderne Kunst in Amsterdam: de collectie van Cornelis Hoogendijk (1866-1911), Herbert Henkels

Persistent URL

To refer to this object please use the following persistent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.9053

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