Saint Andrew with Scenes of his Martyrdom

Artist Marten de Vos (Flemish, 1532 - 1603)

Formerly attributed to Juan de Valdes Leal (Spanish, 1622 - 1690)

Date1600/1603

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsUnframed: 54 1/16 × 46 3/16 inches (137.32 × 117.32 cm)
Framed: 63 7/8 × 56 1/16 inches (162.24 × 142.4 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number30-42

SignedNone

On View

On view

Gallery Location

Collections

European Art

Terms

DescriptionSt. Andrew stands supporting his transverse cross. There are scenes from his life in the background.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Masterpiece of the Week, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, August 19, 1934, no. cat.

Exhibition of Figure Paintings: Dedication of the Fine Arts Building, University of Iowa, Iowa City, November 5-November 30, 1936, no. 57.

Soldiers and Saints in Old Spain and New, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE, November 25, 1962-February 15, 1963, no. S18.

Provenance

With James Henry Duveen (b. 1873), Madrid, by 1930;

Purchased from Duveen through Maxwell Blake (1877-1959), Tangiers, Morocco, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1930.

Published References

The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Handbook of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1933), 138, as by Juan de Valdés Leal.

“Masterpiece of the Week,” News Flashes (The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Atkins Museum of Fine Arts) (August 19, 1934), as by Juan de Valdés Leal.

Exhibition of Figure Painting: Dedication of the Fine Arts Building, exh. cat. (Iowa City: University of Iowa, 1936), unpaginated, as by Juan de Valdés Leal.

The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 2^nd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1941), 169 as by Juan de Valdés Leal.

Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño, La Pintura Española Fuera de España (Historia y Catálogo) (Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1958), 314, as by Juan de Valdés Leal.

Letter from M.S. Soria to Lawrence Sickman, December 5, 1958, NAMA curatorial files, as possibly by Marten de Vos.

Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4^th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 263, as by Juan de Valdés Leal.

“Soldiers and Saints in old Spain and New,” in “Spain: Major Exhibitions for 1962,” special issue, Bulletin (Joslyn Art Museum), no. 4 (1962), 11, (repro.), as by Juan de Valdés Leal.

Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5^th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 262.

Duncan Theobald Kinkead, Juan de Valdés Leal (1622-1690): His Life and Work (New York: Garland, 1978), 504, as a rejected painting by Juan de Valdés Leal.

Burton L. Dunbar, The Collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: German and Netherlandish Paintings, 1450-1600 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2005), 6, 19, 316-324, (repro.), as by Marten de Vos.

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