The Temptation of Saint Anthony
Framed: 13 3/4 x 17 1/4 x 1 3/8 inches (34.93 x 43.82 x 3.49 cm)
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Masterpiece of the Month, The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, April 1951, no cat.
The Art That Broke the Looking-Glass, The Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, November 15-December. 31, 1961, no. 20.
Terror and Desire: the Temptation of St. Anthony from Hieronymus Bosch to Max Ernst, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, February 9 – May 18, 2008, no. 5.
Baron Maurice de Rothschild (1881-1957), Paris, by 1950;
With Pinakos, Inc. [Rudolf Heinemann], New York, on joint account with Knoedler and Co., New York, stock book 9, no. A-4444, as by Jan Gossaert, October 19, 1950-November 21, 1950;
Purchased from Pinakos and Knoedler by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1950.
Notation on the reverse of a photograph by Max J. Friedlander, September 14, 1950, NAMA curatorial files, as by Jan Gossart.
“Masterpiece of the Month” Gallery News (The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts) 17, no. 6 (April 1951), as a recently rediscovered panel by the Flemish, Jan de Mabuse.
“April Masterpiece at the Nelson Gallery of Art,” 1951, clipping, NAMA curatorial files, as by Jan de Mabuse.
Nicole Verhaegen, "Note àpropos de Jean Gossart et d'une 'Temptation de S. Antoine’,” Bulletin des Musées des Beaux-Arts (Brussels: Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 1955): 2, 4-6, 4n8, (repro.), as by Gossart.
Louis Réau, Iconographie de l’art chrétien: Iconographie des saints, vol. 3, part 1 (Paris: University of France Press, 1958), 111, as by Gossart.
Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 80, 260, (repro.), as by Gossart.
Douglas MacAgy, The Art That Broke the Looking-Glass, exh. cat. (Dallas: Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts 1961): 39, (repro.), as by Mabuse.
Gert von der Osten, De Artibus Opuscula, XL: Essays in Honor of Erwin Panofsky, ed. Millard Meiss, (New York: New York University Press, 1961), 1: 458, 462; 2: 155, (repro.) as by workshop of Gossaert or Gossaert et al.
Sadja Jacob Herzog, “Jan Gossart, called Mabuse (ca. 1478-1532): A Study of His Chronology with a Catalogue of His Works,” vol. 2 (Ph.D. diss., Bryn Mawr College, 1969), no. 82, pp. 361-63, as by anonymous Antwerp artist.
Paul Wescher, “Neue Beitrage zum Schaffen des Jan Gossaert,“ Wallraf Richartz-Jahrbuch: Westdeutsches Jahrbuch fur Kunstgeschichte 32 (1970): 100, 102, 105, 112, as by Gossart.
Encyclopaedia Universalis, vol. 6 (Paris:Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 1970), 922, (repro.), as by Gossart.
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, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 97, 257, (repro.), as by Gossaert.
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 151, (repro.), as attributed to Jan Wellens de Cock.
Ward Van Osta, Antonius-abt in Kunst en Devotie, exh. cat. (Brasschaat, Belgium: Kerkfabriek van Sint-Antonius, 1999), 119, 120, (repro.).
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), 20, 22-23, 29, 217-226, 266.
Michael Philipp and Hans Richard Brittnacher, Schrecken und Lust: die Versuchung des Heiligen Antonius: von Hieronymus Bosch bis Max Ernst: eine Austellung des Bucerius Kunst Forums, 9. Februar bis 18. Mai 2008, exh. cat. (Munich: Hirmer, 2008), 92-93, (repro.).
