Quinten Metsys: The Virgin and Child
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Artist |
Quinten Metsys
(1456/1466–1530) |
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Alternative names |
Quinten Massys (I), Quinten Matsijs, Quinten Matsys, Quinten Messijs, Quinten Messys, Quinten Metsijs (I), Quinten Metsys, Quintinus Metsys, Quintin Metsys |
Description |
Flemish painter and drawer |
Date of birth/death |
26 April 1466 / between 1465 and 1466 date QS:P,+1465-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1465-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1466-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 / 1456 / 1465 |
14 September 1530 |
Location of birth/death |
Leuven |
Antwerp |
Work location |
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Authority file |
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artist QS:P170,Q314275 |
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Title |
Virgin and Child
label QS:Lit,"Madonna col Bambino"
label QS:Lhu,"Szűz Mária és a kis Jézus"
label QS:Lcy,"Y Forwyn a'r Plentyn"
label QS:Lpt,"A Virgem com o Menino"
label QS:Lro,"Fecioara cu Pruncul"
label QS:Lja,"聖母子"
label QS:Lpl,"Madonna z Dzieciątkiem"
label QS:Lhe,"הבתולה והילד"
label QS:Lnl,"Maria met kind"
label QS:Les,"La virgen y el Niño"
label QS:Lfr,"Vierge à l'Enfant"
label QS:Lsl,"Devica Marija z otrokom"
label QS:Len,"Virgin and Child"
label QS:Leo,"Dipatrino kun Infano"
label QS:Lmk,"Богородица со малиот Исус"
label QS:Lde,"Die heilige Jungfrau mit dem Kinde" |
Object type |
painting |
Genre |
religious art |
Description |
The virgin Mary sitting on an elaborate marble throne kissing the Christ child sitting on a pillow next to her. The child has wrapped his arms around his mother. Mary holds a pair of cherries in her right hand. On the balustrade in front of her grapes and apples are placed. To the left a window with a view on a landscape. |
Depicted people |
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Date |
Circa 1525-1530 |
Medium |
oil on oak wood |
Dimensions |
height: 75 cm (29.5 in); width: 63 cm (24.8 in) dimensions QS:P2048,75U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,63U174728 |
Collection |
Mauritshuis
(Inventory) |
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Native name |
Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis |
Location |
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Coordinates |
52° 04′ 49.4″ N, 4° 18′ 51.5″ E |
Established |
1822 |
Website |
mauritshuis.nl |
Authority file |
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institution QS:P195,Q221092 |
Accession number |
842 |
Place of creation |
Antwerp |
Object history |
Diego Duarte (1612-1691), Antwerp, as ‘Van Meester Quinten Matsys [...] No. 92*. Een Marienbelt met het kindeken sittende in een oratoriken, heel curieus.... gld. 200 ... (verkocht voor 600 gld. aan de vorstin van Nassau)’ (presumably )
by 1681date QS:P,+1681-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1681-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 : Countess Albertine Agnes of Nassau (1634-1696), Stadhouderlijk Hof, Leeuwarden, as ‘In 't cabinet van haer hoochheit Onse Lieve Vrouw met het Kindcken, geschildert door Quintus Masius, met een dubbelte liste.’.
Unknown date: inherited by William III of England (1650-1702)
Unknown date: transferred to Het Loo Palace, Apeldoorn
18 September 1798: transferred to the Nationale Konst-Gallery, The Hague
1808: transferred to the Nationaal Museum voor Geschiedenis en Kunst, The Hague
1885: transferred to the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Inventory number SK-A-247
1948: lent to the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, Inventory number 842, The Hague, by Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam
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References |
Mauritshuis online catalogue, as Quinten Massijs (I) and/or Workshop of Quinten Massijs (I), Madonna and Child, circa 1525-1530, height: 75 cm (29.5 in); width: 63 cm (24.8 in) dimensions QS:P2048,75U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,63U174728 .
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam online catalogue, as Workshop of Quinten Massijs (I), Virgin and Child, circa 1525date QS:P,+1525-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 -circa 1530date QS:P,+1530-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 ,.
RKDimages, Art-work number 27768, as Quinten Massijs (I), Maria met kind, 1471-1530, height: 75 cm (29.5 in); width: 63 cm (24.8 in)dimensions QS:P2048,75U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,63U174728
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur, object 20186045, as Quinten Massijs (I), Thronende Maria mit Kind, 1486/1515, height: 75 cm (29.5 in); width: 63 cm (24.8 in)dimensions QS:P2048,75U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,63U174728
Anonymous (1903) Catalogus der Schilderijen miniaturen, pastels, omlijste teekeningen, enz. in het Rijks-Museum te Amsterdam, Amsterdam: Boek- en kunstdrukkerij v/h Roeloffzen-Hübner en Van Santen, p. 169, cat. no. 1529, as Oude copie of navolging, De H. Maagd met het Kind Jezus, height: 78 cm (30.7 in); width: 64 cm (25.1 in)dimensions QS:P2048,78U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,64U174728 .
Anonymous (1934) Catalogus der schilderijen pastels–miniaturen–aquarellen tentoongesteld in het Rijksmuseum te Amsterdam, Amsterdam: J.H. de Bussy, p. 180, cat. no. 1529, as Quinten Massijs (I), De H. Maagd met het Kind Jezus, height: 75 cm (29.5 in); width: 63 cm (24.8 in)dimensions QS:P2048,75U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,63U174728 .
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Source/Photographer |
www.rijksmuseum.nl : Home : Info : Pic |
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