About This Artwork

Workshop of Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen (Master of the Berlin Sketchbook?)
Netherlandish, c. 1470/75–by 1533

The Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist, c. 1520

Oil on panel
34 x 27.4 cm (13 3/8 x 10 13/16 in.)
Image: 33.5 x 26.5 cm (13 3/16 x 10 5/16 in.)
Inscribed: M.DA.NO and .REGINA (on hem of the Virgin’s mantle)
Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection, 1937.1011

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Religious Art from the Fourth Century to the Present Time, 1930, no. 20.

Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 39.

Publication History

Max J. Friedländer, review of Kurt Steinbart, Die Tafelgemälde des Jakob Cornelisz von Amsterdam, in Kunstchronik und Kunstmarkt, n.s., 34 (1923), pp. 605–06.

Kurt Steinbart, “Nachlese im Werke des Jacob Cornelisz,” Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft 5 (1929), p. 256.

Max J. Friedländer, Die altniederländische Malerei, vol. 12, Leiden, 1935, p. 196, no. 275; rev. English ed., Early Netherlandish Painting, Brussels and Leiden, 1975, p. 117, no. 275, pl. 148.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, 1961, pp. 84–85.

K. G. Boon, Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, The Hague, 1978, p. 52, under no. 144. Sutton 1986, p. 49.

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. 307–08, cat. D5, fig. 90.

Martha Wolff in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 184-88, ill.

Ownership History

Duc de Blacas, Paris; sold to Kleinberger, Paris, Feb. 21, 1914; sold to Ryerson, June 18, 1914; Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago; by descent to his widow (d. 1937), Chicago; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1937.