Madonna and Child

Workshop of Joos van Cleve (Netherlandish, 1511-1540/1541)

Formerly attributed to Joos van Cleve (Netherlandish, 1511-1540/1541)

Dateca. 1530/1535

MediumOil on panel (oak)

DimensionsUnframed: 9 15/16 x 7 1/4 inches (25.24 x 18.42 cm)
Framed: 15 7/8 x 14 1/16 inches (40.32 x 35.72 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number31-115

SignedNone

On View

On view

Gallery Location

Collections

European Art

Terms

DescriptionMadonna nursing the child wrapped in white cloth. Her robe is light brown with touches of fur at the wrist, the same shade being used for the draped mantle for her head.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Seventh Anniversary Exhibition of German, Flemish, and Dutch Painting, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, December, 1940- January, 1941, no. 11.

Gallery Label

This panel is by an assistant or pupil of Joos van Cleve. Workshops of trained assistants were common with successful artists who received more work than they could accomplish on their own. The picture shows a tender intimacy between Christ and Mary appropriate in a small picture intended for private devotion. Particular attention has been given to the realistic treatment of the fur on her sleeve and collar, the silky strands of her golden tresses and the fluffy, curly hair of the infant Christ.

Provenance

Marczell von Nemes (1866-1930), Munich, by 1930;

Purchased at his posthumous sale, Sammlung Marczell von Nemes, Frederik Müller and Co., Paul Cassirer, and Hugo Helbing, Munich, June 16, 1931, lot 65, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1931.

Published References

Max J. Friedländer, Die Altniederländische Malerei, vol. 9, Joos van Cleve, Jan Provost, Joachim Patenier (Berlin: Cassirer, 1931), 135n55g.

Sammlung Marczell Von Nemes: Gemälde des XIV. bis XIX Jahrhunderts (Munich: Frederick Muller & Co., June 16-19, 1931), 32, 51, (repro.).

“Additional Old Masters Secured for Kansas City,” The Art News, February 6, 1932, clipping, NAMA curatorial files.

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.

William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Mo. Seventh Anniversary Exhibition of German, Flemish, and Dutch Painting (Kansas City, Missouri: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, 1940), 17n11.

Gallery News (The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts) 7, no. 6 (March 1941): 6.

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), 56, 167.

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), 260.

Carl Gustaf Stridbeck, “Den gåtfulla nejlikan. Några reflekioner kring ett aktuellt ikonologiskt motiv," Kunsthistorisk Tidskrift 29, nos. 3-4 (December 1960): 81-97.

Irina Bergström, "Nejliksymbolen än en gång,” Kunsthistorisk Tidskrfit 30, nos. 1-2 (1961): 30-40.

Max J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, vol. 9, Joos van Cleve, Jan Provost, Joachim Patenier, trans. H. Norden (Leiden: Sijthoff, 1973), no. 55g, p. 61, as a copy.

John Oliver Hand, Joos van Cleve: Paintings in Antwerp in the Sixteenth Century (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004), no. 6.5, pp. 115, as a copy.

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), 19, 29, 30, 96n1, 270-276.

Micha Leeflang, Joos van Cleve: a sixteenth century Antwerp artist and his workshop (Turnhout: Brepols, 2015), 188.

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