Triptych with the Adoration of the Magi (centre panel), the Donor and his Six Sons with St Jerome (inner left wing), the Donor’s Wife and her Seven Daughters with St Catherine of Alexandria (inner right wing), St Christopher (outer left wing) and St Antony Abbot (outer right wing), Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen, 1517

Identification

Title(s)

Triptych with the Adoration of the Magi (centre panel), the Donor and his Six Sons with St Jerome (inner left wing), the Donor’s Wife and her Seven Daughters with St Catherine of Alexandria (inner right wing), St Christopher (outer left wing) and St Antony Abbot (outer right wing)

Object type

Object number

SK-A-4706

Inscriptions / marks

date, upper centre of the centre panel, on the fronton: ‘1517’
coat of arms, top of the inner left wing: quartered, 1, a tall chevron, chequered silver and red, on a gold field; 2, seven black rings, three above three above one, on a silver field; 3, three black birds facing right, two above one, on a silver field; 4, two crossed silver swords, points downwards, with gold handles on a black field
coat of arms, top of the inner right wing: divided vertically, 1, a tall chevron, chequered silver and red, on a gold field; 2, a red cogwheel with four spokes, sixteen nail-shaped vanes, and a square hole in the hub, with three red six-pointed stars, two above the cogwheel and one below it, on a gold field
coat of arms, top of the outer left wing: a tall chevron, chequered silver and red, on a gold field
inscription, bottom of the outer left wing: ‘'SCS Christoferus'’
coat of arms, top of the outer right wing: an unidentified mark
inscription, bottom of the outer right wing: ‘'SCS Anthonius'’

Description

Drieluik met op het middenpaneel de aanbidding der koningen. Aan weerszijden van Maria met kind knielen de koningen. Op het linker zijpaneel aan de binnenzijde de knielende mannelijke stichter met zijn zes zonen en de heilige Hieronymus. Boven het familiewapen van Heereman, Vanolles, Zeller en Baerland. Op het rechter zijpaneel op de binnenzijde de knielende vrouwelijke stichteres en haar zeven dochters en de heilige Catharina. Boven een familiewapen, deels van Heereman. Op de buitenzijde van de zijpanelen de heilige Christophorus met familiewapen Heereman en de heilige Antonius.

Creation

Artist

painter: Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen

Place

Amsterdam

Dating

1517

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on panel

Material

Measurements

support: height 84.1 cm × width 55.2 cm × height 82.2 cm × width 23.6 cm × height 82.2 cm × width 23.6 cm

Subject

What

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt and Mr and Mrs Middendorf, Washington

Acquisition

purchase 1978

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; Franciscan convent near Messiera , 1792;{Hinterding/Horsch 1989, p. 59, no. 15} …; Van Parijs;{According to the dealer L.J. Nieuwenhuys; see Hinterding/Horsch 1989, p. 59, no. 15} …; purchased from the dealer L.J. Nieuwenhuys, Brussels, by Willem II (1792-1849), King of the Netherlands, Brussels, as Gossaert, with 22 other ‘tableaux gottiques’, probably April 1823;{Hinterding/Horsch 1989, pp. 9, 59, no. 15} his sale, The Hague (De Vries, Roos, Brondgeest), 18 August 1850, no. 15, as ‘Jean Memling’, unsold; from his estate, fl. 7,700, to Frederik (1797-1881), Prince of The Netherlands, 14 October 1850;{Hinterding/Horsch 1989, pp. 43, 59, no. 15} his daughter, Marie (1841-1910), Fürstin zu Wied, Princess of the Netherlands, Neuwied, 1883; her sale et al., London (Sotheby’s), 5 July 1967, no. 11, £ 37,000 to the dealer E.J. Speelman;{Copy RKD}…; on loan to the museum from J. William Middendorf II (1924-), Washington and The Hague, 1973-78; from whom, fl. 1,145,833, to the museum, with support from the Prins Bernard Fonds, the Vereniging Rembrandt and Mr and Mrs J. William Middendorf II, 1978; on loan to the Amsterdams Historisch Museum, 2004-10

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

1100 - 1600, Reinier J. Baarsen, Frits Scholten, cat.nr. 45
Vroege Hollanders : schilderkunst van de late Middeleeuwen, Mario Damen, Jeroen Giltaij, Friso Lammertse, cat.nr. 32
Nederlandse kunst in het Rijksmuseum 1400-1600, Reinier J. Baarsen, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, Ger Luijten, Hendrik Willem van Os, Frits Scholten, cat.nr. 33
Leven na de dood : gedenken in de late Middeleeuwen, Truus van Bueren, Wilhelmina C.M. Wüstefeld, p. 117
All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam : a completely illustrated catalogue : first supplement: 1976-91, p. 48
The paintings of Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen (1472?-1533), Jane Louise Carroll, p. 122-129, cat.nr. 5
Das altniederländische Stifterbild, Elisabeth Heller, cat.nr. 276
All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam : a completely illustrated catalogue, p. 176
Early Netherlandish painting [ : 1 1967], dl. 12, p. 114, cat.nr. 239
Middeleeuwse kunst der Noordelijke Nederlanden, cat.nr. 107
Die altniederländische Malerei, dl. 12, p. 103-104, 193, cat.nr. 239
Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen (ca. 1470-1533) : de Renaissance in Amsterdam en Alkmaar, p. 110, 114, 224-226, afb. 11.5, 11.10, cat.nr. 29
1100-1600, Reinier J. Baarsen, Frits Scholten, cat.nr. 45
Twee figuren teveel : De familie Cat en hun memorietafel uit 1517, S.A.C. Dudok van Heel
De vroege Nederlandse schilderkunst in het Rijksmuseum
Keuze uit de aanwinsten, p. 189, afb. 1
S.A.C. Dudok van Heel, m.m.v. W.J. van den Berg, 'De schilders Jacob Cornelisz. alias Jacob War en Cornelis Buys uit Oostzaan : Hun werkplaatsen in Amsterdam en Alkmaar', De Nederlandsche Leeuw 128 (2011) jun., p. 51.
M. Leeflang en D. Meuwissen, 'Ondertekend' : Onderzoek naar de ondertekening van de schilderijen van Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen, Oostzaan, 2003, cat.nr. 3.
Vereniging Rembrandt, Verslag over 1978, p. 78-80.
K. Steinbart, 'Nachlese im Werk des Jacob Cornelisz. von Amsterdam', Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft 5 (1929), p. 234.

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