Geertruy Haeck Kneeling in Prayer before Saint Agnes, anonymous, c. 1465

Identification

Title(s)

Geertruy Haeck Kneeling in Prayer before Saint Agnes
Geertruy Haeck-van Slingelandt van der Tempel knielt in gebed voor de heilige Agnes

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-3926

Inscriptions / marks

coat of arms, upper right: divided vertically, 1, a red diagonal blocked cross on a silver field, with a bird in the first quarter; 2, divided horizontally, at the top a silver chapel on a red field, at the bottom two alternately embattled silver bands on a black field
inscription, centre right, on the banderole: ‘sancta agneta ora pro me’ (Saint Agnes, pray for me)
inscription, bottom, on the flagstones: ‘A // M // R’

Description

De stichteres Geertruy Haeck-van Slingelandt van der Tempel (ca. 1425-1467) knielend in gebed voor de heilige Agnes met een lam. Rechtsboven voor het venster een banderol met tekst en het familiewapen.

Creation

Artist

painter: anonymous

Place

Northern Netherlands

Dating

c. 1465

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on panel

Material

Measurements

support: height 62.4 cm × width 48.3 cm × height 61.0 cm × width 46.2 cm

Subject

What

Who

Geertruy Haeck-van Slingeland van der Tempel

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

purchase Nov-1957

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; collection Ms Bayne Jardine, Bracknell, Berkshire;{Note RMA.}…; sale, Major-General Sir Allan Adair, The Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston, Lord Claud N. Hamilton, Mrs Violet Heyworth et al., London (Christie’s), 17 May 1957, no. 107, as Bruges school, £ 630, to Major;{Copy RKD.} …; from the dealer A. Kaufmann, London, £ 4,300 (fl. 45,300), to the museum, 1957

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Notes

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

Documentation

Geert Grote en de Moderne Devotie, Sj. Hiddema, p. 40 + ill.
Early Dutch painting : painting in the northern Netherlands in the fifteenth century, Christopher Brown, Albert Châtelet, Anthony Turner, cat.nr. 40
Alleen kijken naar teksten op schilderijen, cat.nr. 11
All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam : a completely illustrated catalogue, p. 685
Das altniederländische Stifterbild, Elisabeth Heller, p. 100, cat.nr. 7
Middeleeuwse kunst der Noordelijke Nederlanden, cat.nr. 5
Aanwinsten : 1 juni 1957 - 1 januari 1958
Documentatiemap SCH: correspondentie over het paneel aanwezig
C. Diskant Muir, 'St. Agnes of Rome as a bride of Christ. A northern European phenomenon, c. 1450-1520, Simiolus 31, nr. 3 (2004/2005), p. 134-155
L.D. Gelfand en W.S. Gibson, 'surrogate selves: the Rolin Madonna and the late-medieval devotional portrait, Simiolus 3/4 (2002), p. 135 + afb.
De Nederlandse Leeuw 118 (2001), nr. 7/8, p. 541-543 + ill. (als Adriana Dirckdr. Van Slingeland)
E. Persoons, 'Het dagelijks leven in de Windesheimer vrouwenkloosters', Spiegel Historiael 15 (1980), p. 348, afb. 8
Rijksmuseum Kunstkrant (nov./dec. 1996), p. 4 + afb.
K. Strauss, 'Keramikgefässe, insbesondere Fayence-gefässe auf Tafelbildern der deutschen und Niederländischen Schule des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts, Keramik-Freunde der Schweiz (dec. 1972), p. 33, T. 4, afb. 2 (letters op tegels, Spaans)
Jaarverslag Rijksmuseum, 1957, p. 6

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