id:			114684
accession number:	1934.29
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1934.29
updated:		2020-01-06 09:00:22.159000

Virgin and Child, c. 1470-1480. 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
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creation date:			c. 1470-1480
creation date earliest:		1470
creation date latest:		1480
current location:		112 Northern Renaissance
creditline:			Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds
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culture:	Netherlands, Bruges, 15th century
technique:	oil on wood
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Medieval Art
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Hans Memling (Netherlandish, 1494)  - artist

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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.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition
	opening date:   1936-06-26T04:00:00
	<i>The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition</i>. 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
	<i>The Silver Jubilee Exhibition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* French and Flemish Primitives, Toledo Museum of Art, (1935), cat. no. 26.<br>Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition CMA,, (1936), cat. no. 204.<br>Flemish Paintings, The Worcester Art Museum, Mass.; Philadelphia Museum of Art, (1939), cat. no. 14.<br>Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages, CMA, (1985), cat. no. 18, fig 19.<br>Hans Memling, Groeningemuseum, Bruges, (1994), cat. no. 41, repr.

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PROVENANCE

	Private Collection, Spain
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	Grete Ring, London
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	(Arnold Seligman, Rey & Co,, New York)
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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.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<em>Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> [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. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> 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. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. 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. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 69
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n93

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 81
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n101

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