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COLOGNE SCHOOL

Germany

Virgin and Child with Saints [Triptych of the Virgin and Child with Saints (left panel) Virgin and Child with Saints (left panel)]
Virgin and Child with Saints
Triptych of the Madonna and Child with saints and angel musicians within a hortus conclusus (central panel) Emperor Charlemagne, St Helena and donor (left-hand shutter panel) St Peter and St Margaret (right-hand shutter panel) c.1510-20

oil on three oak panels

twelve oak planks, assembled with the grain running vertically wings three planks with two vertical joints; central six planks

maximum 108.0 (h) x 79.0 (w) x 0.9 (d) cm

minimum 102.1 (h) x 79.0 (w) x 0.9 (d) cm

framed (maximum) 126.5 (h) x 87.7 (w) x 6.0 (d) cm

framed (minimum) 114.5 (h) x 87.7 (w) x 6.0 (d) cm

framed (overall) 126.5 (h) x 354.0 (w) x 6.0 (d) cm

not signed, not dated

Purchased with the assistance of James O Fairfax AO and the Nerissa Johnson Bequest 2001.

NGA 2001.19.A-C

Exhibitions

Düsseldorf, Art Historical Exhibition, 1904, no.82 (attributed by E. Firmenich-Richartz to an unidentified follower of Bruyn);

Cologne, Year Exhibition 1926, no. 86;

Thomas Agnew & Son Ltd, London, Thirty-Five Paintings from the Collection of the British Rail Pension Fund 1984, no.18 (mistakenly attributed to the Master of the Legend of St Ursula)

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