Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saints Francis and Lidwina, with Donors (Anna Selbdritt), Master of the Saint John Panels, c. 1490 - c. 1500

Identification

Title(s)

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saints Francis and Lidwina, with Donors (Anna Selbdritt)

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-4125

Description

De heilige Anna te Drieën. Anna zit op de troon, lezend in een boek. Aan haar voeten zit Maria met het Christuskind op schoot. Links knielen zes mannelijke stichters in aanbidding met de heilige Franciscus, rechts vier stichteressen met de heilige Lidwina. Op de trappen van de troon knielen vijf kinderen. Engelen in de lucht houden de gordijnen aan weerszijden van de troon omhoog.

Creation

Artist

painter: Master of the Saint John Panels

Dating

c. 1490 - c. 1500

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on panel

Material

Measurements

support: height 55.5 cm × width 53.5 cm
painted surface: height 54.5 cm × width 52.2 cm
depth 6 cm

Subject

What

Who

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

purchase 1966

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; sale, Mrs. Sven Bostrom et al. [section ‘The Property of a Gentleman’], London (Christie’s), 19 March 1965, no. 66, as Master of the Virgo inter Virgines, 2,800 gns, to the dealer P. de Boer, Amsterdam;{Copy RKD.} from whom, fl. 50,000, to the museum, 1966

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

Leven na de dood : gedenken in de late Middeleeuwen, Truus van Bueren, Wilhelmina C.M. Wüstefeld, p. 13, 15, 92 + afb.
Heilige Anna, grote moeder : de cultus van de Heilige Moeder Anna en haar familie in de Nederlanden en aangrenzende streken, Ton Brandenbarg, cat.nr. 132, afb. 140
Aangenaam gezelschap : zes conversatiestukken van Nicolaas Muys, p. 11 + afb.
Early Dutch painting : painting in the northern Netherlands in the fifteenth century, Christopher Brown, Albert Châtelet, Anthony Turner, cat.nr. 149, pl. 136
All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam : a completely illustrated catalogue, p. 634
Das altniederländische Stifterbild, Elisabeth Heller, cat.nr. 206
Werk van een vroege Goudse of Leidse schilder in het Rijksmuseum, Karel Gerard Boon
Friedländer, V, ed. 1969, p. 97

Persistent URL

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