About This Artwork

Marcellus Coffermans
Netherlandish, active after 1578/79

Assumption of the Virgin, 16th century

Oil on panel
26.9 x 18.4 cm (10 5/8 x 7 1/4 in.)
Image: 25.4 x 16.9 cm (10 x 6 5/8 in.)
signed & dated 1562
George F. Harding Collection, 1984.17

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Saint Paul (Minn.) Art Center, The Age of Belief, 1966–67, no. 8.

Publication History

Walter Cohen, in Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, vol. 7, Leipzig, 1912, p. 172.

“Pictures Bring Best Prices in Stillwell Sale,”Art News 26, 10 (1927), pp. 1–2.

Marc Rudolf de Vrij, “Two Reconstructed Triptychs by Marcellus Coffermans and Their Place within His Oeuvre,” Städel-Jahrbuch, n.s., 18 (2001), p. 183 n. 7.

M[arc] R[udolf] de Vrij, “Sources of Inspiration: A Reconstructed Triptych by Marcellus Coffermans,” Aachener Kunstblätter 62 (1998–2002), pp. 276–77, pl. 6.

Marc Rudolf de Vrij, Marcellus Coffermans, Amsterdam, 2003, pp.
53–54, 65, 157, pl. 27.

Susan Frances Jones in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 171-74, ill.

Ownership History

Dr. John E. Stillwell, New York, by 1927; sold, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, Dec. 1–3, 1927, no. 244, to Clapp and Graham as agent for Harding [registrar’s records]; 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bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago; offered for sale, Sotheby’s, New York, Dec. 2, 1976, no. 185, withdrawn; ownership transferred to the Art Institute, 1982; accessioned, 1984.