St Luke Painting the Virgin, anonymous, c. 1515

Identification

Title(s)

St Luke Painting the Virgin

Object type

sculpture

Object number

BK-NM-29

Inscriptions / marks

label, on Luke's knee: ‘38 [...]’

Creation

Artist

sculptor: anonymous

Place

Northern Netherlands (possibly)

Dating

c. 1515

Material and Technique

Physical features

oak with traces of polychromy

Material

oak (wood)

Measurements

height c. 50 cm × width c. 44 cm × depth c. 20 cm

Subject

What

St.Luke painting or drawing the Madonna (i.e. Mary and the Christ-child), sometimes Joseph present

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

purchase 1873

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; from the estate of `Count´ Jan Jacob Nahuys (1801-1864), Utrecht, with eight other objects (BK-NM-20, -23 to -28 and -31), fl. 400 for all, to the Dutch State, in or after 1864; transferred to the Nederlandsch Museum voor Geschiedenis en Kunst, The Hague, 1875; transferred to the museum, 1885

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

Beeldhouwkunst in het Rijksmuseum [Amsterdam], Jaap Leeuwenberg, cat.nr. 89
Catalogus van de beeldhouwwerken in het Nederlandsch Museum voor geschiedenis en kunst te Amsterdam [1915], p. 44, cat.nr. 156
Die Holzskulptur in den Niederlanden, Marinus van Notten, Willem Vogelsang, dl. 2, nr. 29, pl. 21
Catalogus van de beeldhouwwerken in het Nederlandsch Museum voor geschiedenis en kunst te Amsterdam [1904], p. 20, cat.nr. 77

Persistent URL

To refer to this object please use the following persistent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.24364

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