About This Artwork

Jan Gossart
Netherlandish, c. 1478–1532

Virgin and Child, c. 1520

Oil on panel
21 x 15 7/8 in. (53.4 x 40.2 cm)
Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection, 1957.47

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Tourcoing, Musée d'Art, Exhibition, 1906, cat. no. 18.

The Art Institute of Chicago, New Light on Old Masters: Research on Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute, 26 June—14 September 2008, no cat.

Publication History

Max J. Friedländer, Von Eyck bis Brueghel: Studien zur Geschichte der niederländerischen Malerei, 2nd ed. (Berlin, 1921), pp. 133, 198.

Friedrich Winkler, "Gossaert" in Thieme-Becker vol. 14, Leipzig, 1921, p. 412.

Martin Conway, The Van Eycks and their Followers (London, 1921), p. 373.

Achille Segard, Jean Gossart dit Mabuse (Brussels and Paris, 1923), pp. 68-69, 185, no. 53, ill. opp. p. 64.

Max J. Friedländer, Die altniederländische Malerei (Berlin, 1930), vol. 8, p. 156, no. 33 (rev. ed. 1972, pp. 94-95, no. 33, pl. 32).

Max J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting: From Van Eyck to Bruegel (London, 1956), p. 103.

The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 51 (1956/57), pp. 88-89, ill.

"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, April-June, 1957," The Art Quarterly, 20 (1957), p. 318, ill. p. 320.

Gert von der Osten, "Studien zu Jan Gossaert" in De Artibus Opuscula XL: Essays in Honor of Erwin Panofsky, ed. Millard Meiss (New York, 1961), p. 465.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961) p. 200, ill. p. 137.

Sadja Jacob Herzog, "Jan Gossart, called Mabuse (ca. 1478-1532), A Study of his Chronology with a Catalogue of his Works", PhD. dissertation, Bryn Mawr College, 1968, pp. 272-273, no. 29, pl. 36.

John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (London, 1970), p. 283, ill. p. 252.

Walter S. Gibson, "Jan Gossart de Mabuse: Madonna and Child in a Landscape," The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 61 (1974), p. 292, fig. 10.

Masterworks of the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin with a History of the Collection (New York, 1986), p. 274, ill.

Larry Silver, The Paintings of Quinten Massys with Catalogue Raisonné (Montclair, N.J., 1984), p. 183, pl. 172.

Larry Silver, "Figure nude, historie e poesie: Jan Gossaert and the Renaissance Nude in the Netherlands," Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 37 (1986), pp. 11, 24, fig. 38.

Larry Silver, "The 'Gothic' Gossaert: Native and Traditional Elements in a Mabuse Madonna," Pantheon 45 (1987), p. 59, fig. 3.

Guy Bauman and Walter A. Liedtke, Flemish Paintings in America: A Survey of Early Netherlandish and Flemish Paintings in the Public Collections of North America (Antwerp, 1992), p. 337, no. 250, ill.

Jefferson C. Harrison, "Jan Gossaert's Madonna and Child: A Newly Proposed Mabuse Triptych," The Chrysler Museum Journal 1 (1994), pp. 8, 10, fig. 6.

Martha Wolff, Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 227–31, ill. as frontispiece, p. 228.

Ownership History

Etienne-Edmond Martin, 2nd Baron de Beurnonville, Paris; sold Paris, 9-16 May, 1881, no. 289, ill., for 4,000 francs to Baer [annotated sale cat. in Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris]. Dr. Max Wassermann (died 1932), Paris, by 1906 [lent by him to Tourcoing 1906]; his widow; confiscated by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (E.R.R.) from the Banque de l’Union Parisienne where it had been placed on deposit [Consolidated Interrogation Report no. 2, 1945, p. 27 and 26 May 2000 report of Louis Amigues in curatorial file]; returned to Mme Pierre Lemand, née Wassermann, on 29 November, 1946 [Louis Amigues report and 19 May 2000 letter from Françoise Cachin to James Wood]; sold by the heirs of Max Wassermann to Wildenstein and Co, 1954 [4 April 2000 letter of Daniel Wildenstein and letter of 17 September 1999 of Joseph Baillio, both in curatorial file]; Wildenstein and Co., Paris and New York, from 1954 to 1957; sold to the Art Institute, 1957.