WORKSHOP OF HANS MEMLING (SELINGENSTADT 1430 / 40-1494 BRUGES) - photo 1
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WORKSHOP OF HANS MEMLING (SELINGENSTADT 1430 / 40-1494 BRUGES)

Lot 6
23.05.2024 10:00UTC -05:00
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Starting price
$ 300 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1196441
Lot 6 | WORKSHOP OF HANS MEMLING (SELINGENSTADT 1430 / 40-1494 BRUGES)
Estimate value
$ 300 000 – 500 000
WORKSHOP OF HANS MEMLING (SELINGENSTADT 1430 / 40-1494 BRUGES)

The Virgin and Child with music-making angels, known as The Béthune Madonna

oil on panel, unframed

24 ¼ x 20 ¼ in. (61.7 x 51.4 cm.)





Provenance

Acquired by the de Béthune family by the early 16th century (according to family tradition), and by descent within the family to

Jean Baptiste Joseph de Béthune, (b. 1722) and by descent to

Jean Baptiste Antoine de Béthune (1757-1791), Lille, and by descent to

Baron Félix Antoine Joseph de Béthune (1789-1880), Courtrai, and by descent to

Baron Léon Marie Joseph Sidoine Corneille de Béthune (1864-1907), Aalst, by 1902, and by descent to his daughter,

Ghislaine Lippens (1889-1969), née de Béthune, Brussels, by 1939, and by descent to the present owners.



Literature

K. Voll, Memling, Stuttgart and Leipzig, 1909, p. 133.

W. Rothes, Hans Memling und die Renaissance in den Niederlanden, Munich, 1926, pp. 5, 15, fig. 23.

M.J. Friedländer, 'The Memling Exhibition at Bruges', The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, LXXV, no. 438, 1939, p. 124, as a copy.

M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting: Hans Memling and Gerard David, VIa, New York, 1971, p. 48, pl. 49, no. 14a, as a copy.

J.-L. Pypaert, 'Early Netherlandish Painting XV? Joseph van der Veken', in D. Vanwijnsberghe, ed., Autour de La Madeleine Renders, Brussels, p. 246, cat. 162, as Hans Memling (copie).

D. Martens and C. Van Hauwermeiren, 'Autour de Hans Memling: La Madone de Béthune et la Madone Van Nieuwhenhove', in: Koregos, Revue et encyclopédie multimedia des arts, sous l’égide de l’Académie royale de Belgique, 2013.



Exhibited

Bruges, Exposition des Primitifs flamands et l'art ancien, 15 June-15 September, 1902, no. 83, as Hans Memling.

Bruges, Museé Communal des Beaux-Arts, Memling Tentoonstelling, 22 June-1 October 1939, no. 23, as a copy.
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