About This Artwork

Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen and Workshop
Netherlandish, c. 1470/75–by 1533

The Adoration of the Christ Child, c. 1515

Oil on panel
98.5 x 76.3 cm (38 3/4 x 30 1/16 in)
Painted surface: 97 x 74.9 cm (38 3/16 x 29 1/2 in.)
George F. Harding Collection, 1983.375

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Saint Paul (Minn.) Art Center, The Age of Belief, 1966–67, no. 3.

Publication History

Martin Conway, The Van Eycks and Their Followers, London, 1921, p. 458.

Kurt Steinbart, Die Tafelgemälde des Jakob Cornelisz von Amsterdam, Strasbourg, 1922, pp. 72–77, 157, pl. 6, fig. 1.

G.F.M., “New York Has Its Hidden Collections,” Art News 21, 21 (1923), p. 7.

J. Six, “Jan van Hout, Cornelis Buys en Jacob Cornelisz.,” Oud Holland 42 (1925), p. 26.

“Pictures Bring Best Prices in Stillwell Sale,” Art News 26, 10 (1927), pp. 1, 12.

Max J. Friedländer, Die altniederländische Malerei, vol. 12, Leiden, 1935, p. 195, no. 254, pl. 51; rev. English ed., Early Netherlandish Painting, Brussels and Leiden, 1975, pp. 116, 144 n. 92, no. 254, pl. 142.

Max J. Friedländer, Die altniederländische Malerei, vol. 14, Leiden, 1937, p. 124; rev. English ed., Early Netherlandish Painting, Brussels and Leiden, vol. 11, 1974, p. 102.

G. J. Hoogewerff, De Noord-nederlandsche schilderkunst, vol. 3, The Hague,1939, p. 111.

Jaap Leeuwenberg, “Twee teruggevonden werken van Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen,” Maandblad voor beeldende kunsten 20 (1943), p. 161.

Denise Fallon, “Une Intervention d’Adriaen Ysenbrant ou de son atelier dans un triptyque maniériste de 1520, conservé à Bruges,” Bulletin: Institut royal du patrimoine artistique 19 (1982–83), p. 134.

Jane L. Carroll, “The Paintings of Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen (1472–1533),” Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1987 (Ann Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms, 1988), pp. 204–05, under cat. 4.

Art Institute of Chicago, Glad Tidings of Great Joy, Chicago, 1993, pp. 22–23, 25 (ill.), 39.

Daantje Meuwissen, “A ‘Painter in Black and White’: The Symbiotic Relationship between the Paintings and Woodcuts of Jacob Cornelisz. Van Oostsanen,” in Making and Marketing: Studies of the Painting Process in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Netherlandish Workshops, ed. Molly Faries, Turnhout, 2006, pp. 67, 79.

Martha Wolff in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 174-79, ill.

Ownership History

Spanish Art Gallery, London, by 1914 to at least 1916 [Steinbart 1922, p. 72; and Conway 1921]. Dr. John E. Stillwell, New York, by 1922[Steinbart 1922, p. 72]; sold, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, Dec. 1–3, 1927, no. 217, to Clapp and Graham as agent for Harding, for $10,250 [Art News 1927, p. 12]; George F. Harding, Jr. (d. 1939), Chicago; bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago; offered for sale, Sotheby’s, New York, Dec. 2, 1976, no. 210, withdrawn; ownership transferred to the Art Institute, 1982; accessioned, 1983.