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Fragment from Christ Carrying the Cross: Mourning Virgin
Jean Hey (Master of Moulins; Netherlandish, active in France, c. 1480-c.1504)LinkedCulture matchlcp-a58f96a1fbdc
- Date
- c. 1500
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Culture
- Netherlands
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 183006
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
Scientific imaging techniques, which can reveal information that lies below or has been removed from the surface layers of a painting, have determined that Saint John the Evangelist and the Mourning Virgin were once part of the same painting, Christ Carrying the Cross . Infrared reflectography revealed drawn strokes of Christ’s curling hair at the lower right of the Saint John panel. X-radiography shows that the top of the cross, still visible in the Saint John panel, occupied the lower left of Mourning Virgin before being scraped away and overpainted. The original work may have been repurposed to create multiple paintings of single, expressive devotional figures.
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- Credit line
- Lacy Withers Armour Fund, purchased with funds provided by the Old Masters Society, the Rhoades Foundation, Marilynn Alsdorf, Barbara Danielson in honor of James Wood, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Madigan, and John and Mary Gedo through the Old Masters Society, through prior gift of the George F. Harding, Mr. and Mrs. Morris I. Kaplan, Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester, and Max and Leola Epstein collections
- Provenance
- In Italy by the late 19th century. Giannino Marchig, by 1950 [photo of the painting at I Tatti, Fiesole, is marked "photo sent by Marchig Feb. 24 1950" with an annotation "Maitre de Moulins" in Bernard Berenson's handwriting; e-mail from Fiorella Superbi, I Tatti, to Tiffany Johnston, July 24, 2003, copy in curatorial file.]; sold to Colnaghi, London, July 1, 1952 [email from Timothy Warner-Johnson, Colnaghi, to Martha Wolff, June 25, 2003, copy in curatorial file]; sold to Sir Thomas Barlow, Bart. (d. 1964), London, July 1, 1952 [email cited above]; by descent to Nicholas Barlow, London; sold to the Art Institute through Simon Dickinson Ltd., London, as agent, 2004.
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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