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The Foolish Virgin

Artist Martin Schongauer (German, ca. 1450 - 1491)
MediumPen and brownish-black ink on paper
DimensionsOverall: 4 15/16 × 3 1/8 inches (12.54 × 7.94 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Milton McGreevy through the Westport Fund
Object numberF58-73
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Exhibition History

Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 7-April 4, 1965, no. 1, as by School of Martin Schongauer, as The Foolish Virgin.

Old Master Drawings Selected from the Collection of Milton McGreevy: Gifts and Bequest to Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 6-June 5, 1983, no. 1, as by School of Martin Schongauer, as Foolish Virgin.

Provenance

Franz Josef Adam Johann Graf von Sternberg-Manderscheid (1763-1830), Prague, by 1830;

His sale, Nachgelassenen Gemälde-Sammlungen Sr. Erlaucht des Herrn Franz Grafen von Sternberg-Manderscheid, Herrn auf Zasmuk, Czastalowitz, Schussenried und Weissenau ..., sowie aus dem Besitze Ihrer Durchlaucht der Fürstin Marie Lobkowitz und anderer, Munich, April 22-24, 1884 [1]

Dr. M. Waldeck, Berlin, by 1887;

His sale, Amsler and Ruthardt, Berlin, February 14, 1887 [2];

Baron Adalbert Freiherr von Lanna (1836-1909), Prague, by 1909 [3];

Joseph Brummer (1883-1947), New York, by 1947;

Purchased from his sale, Sotheby’s Parke-Bernet by Durlacher Brothers, New York, May 16, 1948-1958;

Purchased from Durlacher Brothers by Milton McGreevy (1903-1980), Shawnee Mission, KS, November 12, 1958-1958;

Given by Milton and Barbara (née James, 1905-1996) McGreevy, through the Westport Fund, to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1958.

NOTES:

[1] Lugt 43913

[2] Lugt 46265

[3] Lugt 2773, his mark repeated twice on verso

Published References

“Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) 4, no. 6 (March 7-April 4, 1965): 11, as The Foolish Virgin.

Ross E. Taggart, Old Master Drawings Selected from the Collection of Milton McGreevy: Gifts and Bequest to Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1982), unpaginated, (repro.), as Foolish Virgin.

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