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Virgin and Child

Jan Gossart (Netherlandish, c. 1478–1532)LinkedCulture matchlcp-8e5b16001f75

Date: c. 1520
Medium: Oil on panel
Culture: Netherlands
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID: 111456

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The first Netherlandish painter known to have studied Classical sculpture in Rome, Jan Gossart here fused the vocabulary of the Italian Renaissance with a traditional Netherlandish diptych (two-panel) format. The Virgin Mary’s draperies and the child’s athletic figure show Gossart’s command of the new Renaissance style perfected by Italian artists Michelangelo and Raphael . The glance and blessing gesture of the infant Jesus are directed beyond the picture to the right, suggesting that the panel was once joined by another depicting a donor in prayer. Earlier Netherlandish patrons favored this construction of paired, hinged panels for portable altarpieces.

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Credit line: Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
Provenance: Etienne-Edmond Martin, 2nd Baron de Beurnonville, Paris; sold Paris, May 9-16, 1881, no. 289, ill., for 4,000 francs to Baer [annotated sale cat. in Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris]. Dr. Max Wassermann (died 1932), Paris, by 1906 [lent by him to Tourcoing 1906]; by descent to his widow; confiscated by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (E.R.R.) from the Banque de l’Union Parisienne where it had been placed on deposit [Consolidated Interrogation Report no. 2, 1945, p. 27 and May 26, 2000 report of Louis Amigues in curatorial file]; transferred to the collection of Hermann Goering and recovered by the Allies in Berchtesgaden, then sent to the Central Collecting Point, Munich on Aug. 1, 1945 (Munich property card no. 6168) and returned to France on Sep. 19, 1946; returned to Mme Pierre Lemand (née Wassermann), Nov. 29, 1946 [Louis Amigues report and May 19, 2000 letter from Françoise Cachin to James Wood]; sold by the heirs of Max Wassermann to Wildenstein and Co, 1954 [Apr. 4, 2000 letter of Daniel Wildenstein and letter of Sep. 17, 1999 of Joseph Baillio, both in curatorial file]; Wildenstein and Co., Paris and New York, from 1954 to 1957; sold to the Art Institute, 1957.