About This Artwork

Jean Bellegambe
French, c. 1470–1535/36

Saint Catherine, c. 1520

Oil on panel
32 1/2 x 11 1/16 in. (82.5 x 28.1 cm); painted surface 32 1/8 x 10 3/4 in. (81.5 x 27.3 cm)
George F. Harding Collection, 1983.376

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Saint Paul (Minn.) Art Center, The Age of Belief, 1966–67, no. 6.

Publication History

Charles Sterling and Edward S. King, “A Bellegambe Triptych Reconstructed,”
Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 11 (1948), pp. 45–49, figs. 2, 4.

Sophie Speth Holterhof, “Identification de la Vierge à l’Enfant de Jean Bellegambe,” unpub. typescript, Brussels, Musée Royal d’Art Ancien, 1963.

Sophie Speth Holterhof, “La Vierge à l’Enfant de Jean Bellegambe,” unpub. typescript, Brussels, Musée Royal d’Art Ancien, 1964.

Max J. Friedländer, rev. English ed., Early Netherlandish Painting, Brussels and Leiden, vol. 12, 1975, pp. 134–35,146 n. 158.

Robert Genaille, “L’Oeuvre de Jean Bellegambe,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts,
6th ser., 87 (1976), p. 24, no. 23, fig. 21.

Robert Genaille, “Jean Bellegambe de Douai et la tentation du maniérisme,” in À travers l’art français: Du moyen âge au XXe siècle, Archives de l’art français
25, Paris, 1978, p. 127.

Susan Frances Jones in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 2-7, ill.

Ownership History

Achillito Chiesa, Milan, by 1925; sold, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, part I, Nov. 27, 1925, no. 42, to Harding; 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bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago; offered for sale, Sotheby’s, New York, Dec. 2, 1976, no. 263, withdrawn; ownership transferred to the AIC, 1982; accessioned, 1983.3