id: 114684 accession number: 1934.29 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1934.29 updated: 2021-03-27 12:13:50.542000 Virgin and Child, c. 1470–80. Workshop of Hans Memling (Netherlandish, 1494). Oil on wood; framed: 41.3 x 31.4 x 4.1 cm (16 1/4 x 12 3/8 x 1 5/8 in.); unframed: 31.5 x 22 cm (12 3/8 x 8 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds 1934.29 title: Virgin and Child title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1470–80 creation date earliest: 1470 creation date latest: 1480 current location: 112 Northern Renaissance creditline: Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds copyright: --- culture: Netherlands, Bruges, 15th century technique: oil on wood department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Medieval Art type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Hans Memling (Netherlandish, 1494) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 41.3 x 31.4 x 4.1 cm (16 1/4 x 12 3/8 x 1 5/8 in.); Unframed: 31.5 x 22 cm (12 3/8 x 8 11/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00 The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 12, 1936). title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00 The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). title: Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages opening date: 1985-01-22T05:00:00 Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 22-March 17, 1985). title: Hans Memling opening date: 1994-08-12T04:00:00 Hans Memling. Groeningemuseum, Bruges (organizer) (August 12-November 15, 1994). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * French and Flemish Primitives, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, (1935).

Flemish Paintings, The Worcester Art Museum, MA, (1939); Philadelphia Museum of Art, (1939). --- PROVENANCE Private Collection, Spain date: footnotes: citations: Grete Ring, London date: footnotes: citations: (Arnold Seligman, Rey & Co,, New York) date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: This small panel was once part of a devotional portrait diptych (a hinged two-panel painting). The Christ child’s attention seems drawn to something outside the picture and lifts his hand in recognition. The opposing panel, once hinged on the right, would have featured a portrait of its original owner in prayer, now unfortunately lost. Such devotional portrait diptychs were popular after 1400 and remained so until their production ceased around the 1530s. Used in private chapels or within the curtain folds of four-poster beds, they could easily be closed when not in use. Hans Memling was born near Frankfurt, Germany. He settled in Bruges around 1465 where he developed a reputation for his painting skills, and provided works to the Burgundian court, which likely cultivated the taste for small portrait diptychs. This example seems to have been painted by a member of Memling’s workshop, perhaps for a wealthy merchant or clergyman. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Toledo Museum of Art. French and Flemish Primitive Exhibition: Catalogue. Toledo: The Museum, 1935. page number: Cat. no. 26 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition : June Twenty-Sixth to October Fourth 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: [Cleveland Museum of Art], 1936. page number: Cat. No. 204 url: Worcester Art Museum, Perry Blythe Cott, and Henri Marceau. The Worcester-Philadelphia Exhibition of Flemish Painting, Organized by the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, and the John G. Johnson Collection, Philadelphia ... Worcester Art Museum, February 23-March 12; John G. Johnson Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, March 25-April 26, 1939. Philadelphia: Printed by G. H. Buchanan Co, 1939. page number: Cat. no. 14 url: Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945. page number: Reproduced: p. 25 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1945/page/n33 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 433 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n80 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 69 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n93 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 69 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n93 Cleveland Museum of Art, Louise d' Argencourt, and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. page number: url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 81 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n101 Martin Nagy, Rebecca. Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1985. page number: p. 30-31, 59 url: Vos, Dirk de, Hans Memling, D. Marechal, and Willy Le Loup. Hans Memling: Catalogue. [Brussels]: Ludion, 1994. page number: cat. no. 41 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1934.29/1934.29_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1934.29/1934.29_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1934.29/1934.29_full.tif