Christopher St - closed Wings Triptych - Amsterdam
Jan Wellens de Cock (1480 - 1527) - Follower
1520-1530
Location:
Amsterdam - Netherlands - Rijksmuseum (SK-A-1598) - On loan from October 2004 to the Bonnefantenmuseum nr. 5334 in Maastricht (Netherlands).
Material:
Oil on wood
Dimensions:
painted surface: h 37 cm (centre panel) × w 25.5 cm (centre panel) × h 32.5 cm (left wing) × w 10 cm (left wing) × h 31.8 cm (right wing) × w 9.7 cm (right wing)
Unverfehrt catalogue:
80 - ill. 170
De Vrij catalogue:
More information
Also called: 'Christopher and the Christ Child on the Road of Life' - Closed Triptych from the Crucifixion on the central panel and Peter and a Male Donor (inner left wing), St James and a Female Donor (inner right wing).
Credit line:
History:
Until 1893 in the private collection of Fréderic Spitzer. Bought in 1893 from the Parisian art dealer Durand Ruel.
Literature:
Dülberg 1899a, p. 76 (as Cornelis Engelbrechtsz); Friedländer 1915, p. 88 (as Jan de Cock); Friedländer 1918, pp. 70-71 (as Jan de Cock); Wescher 1925, pp. 147-50 (as Jan de Cock); Friedländer XI, 1933, pp. 63, 126, no. 112 (as Jan de Cock); Beets 1936, pp. 58-60 (as attributed to Lucas Cornelisz named De Cock); Baldass 1937, pp. 125-27 (as Jan de Cock); Hoogewerff III, 1939, pp. 374-77 (as Lucas Cornelisz named De Cock); Gibson 1969a, pp. 188-90, 195-96, 255-56, no. 65 (as Master of the Vienna Lamentation); ENP XI, 1973, pp. 39, 78, no. 112 (as Jan de Cock); Filedt Kok 1996, p. 351; Yao-Fen You in Antwerp 2005, pp. 219-21, no. 93
