Assumption of the Virgin

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

16th century

Marcellus Coffermans (Netherlandish, active after 1578/79)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Marcellus Coffermans
Title: Assumption of the Virgin
Place: Flanders (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1501–1600
Medium: Oil on panel
Inscriptions: Signed and dated: 1562
Dimensions: 26.9 × 18.4 cm (10 5/8 × 7 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: George F. Harding Collection
Reference Number: 1984.17
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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.

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

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bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago; offered for sale, Sotheby’s, New York, Dec. 2, 1976, no. 185, withdrawn; ownership transferred to the Art Institute, 1982; accessioned, 1984.

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