ATTRIBUÉ AU MAÎTRE DE LA MADELEINE MANSI (ACTIF VERS 1520-1530)

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ID 1386971
Los 21 | ATTRIBUÉ AU MAÎTRE DE LA MADELEINE MANSI (ACTIF VERS 1520-1530)
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€ 30 000 – 50 000
ATTRIBUÉ AU MAÎTRE DE LA MADELEINE MANSI (ACTIF VERS 1520-1530)
Vierge à l'Enfant
huile sur panneau et fond d'or, présentant une forme angulaire tronquée dans sa partie supérieure
40,3 x 28,3 cm (15 7/8 x 11 1/8 in.)




Provenance

Couvent Jerusalem, Venray, Pays-Bas (selon une inscription manuscrite sur une étiquette au revers du panneau 'Ancienne vierge donnée [...] / [...] par le doyen du / couvent de Venray en Hollande / où [...] avons été [...]').
Vente anonyme, Salon du Trianon-Palace, Versailles, 14 mars 1962, (Me Chapelle), lot 25 (comme attribué à Colijn de Coter).
Vente anonyme, Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., Londres, 11 juillet 1979, lot 26 (comme suiveur de Quentin Metsys).
Chez Galerie Robert Finck, Bruxelles, Belgique, vers 1979 (comme Quentin Metsys).
Collection Onzea-Govaerts, Belgique.



Exhibited

Bruxelles, Galerie Robert Finck, Collection de tableaux anciens du XVe au XIXe siècle (XXIIe exposition), 1979, n°1.



Further details

ATTRIBUTED TO THE MASTER OF THE MANSI MAGDALEN (ACTIVE C.1520-1530), VIRGIN AND CHILD, OIL ON GOLD GROUND PANEL, SHAPED TO THE TOP

The Master of the Mansi Magdalene, so named by Max Jakob Friedländer (1867-1958) after a painting in the collection of the Marquis Giovannni Battista Mansi and acquired by the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin in 1897, remains a somewhat mysterious figure. Active in Antwerp in the 1520s and 1530s, he was a disciple of Quentin Metsys (1466-1530), about whom very little is known, although he frequently used engravings by Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) and Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) as models for his works, a phenomenon that became increasingly common in the early 16th century.

This charming painting reproduces a lost work by Quentin Metsys. In addition to the Master of the Madeleine Mansi, several other artists, including the Master of the Gold Brocade (second half of the 15th century) and the Master of the Magdalene Legend (c.1490-c.1526), chose to reproduce this composition. Some versions place the Virgin and Christ in an interior, a choice that emphasises Christ's humanity. In the present painting, however, the artist has chosen to use a golden background, a reference to the celestial kingdom.

We would like to thank Peter van den Brink for suggesting an attribution to the Master of the Mansi Magdalene on the basis of a photographic examination of the work.
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