Keywords: Hans Memling - The Virgin Mary nursing the Christ Child (after light cleaning 2014-15).png Artwork Creator Hans Memling mld A tondo depicting a graceful Virgin Mary nursing the Christ Child set before a gilded background ~ 1485 1494 oil gold oak panel size cm 17 4 Private collection accession number object history Ricardo Richard Traumann Collection Madrid Baron Laurent Meeus 1872-1950 Brussels with Agnew ™s London from whom purchased by Captain and Mrs Vivian Bulkeley-Johnson Churchill Oxon The Mount Trust 7 December 1950 Anonymous sale; Christie ™s London 1 December 1978 lot 111 Private collection Antwerp Anonymous sale Property from a Private Collection; Christie ™s New York 25 January 2012 lot 23 bought in with Christie's London offered for sale 9 December 2015 lot 11 withdrawn exhibition history Brussels Exposition d ™Art Ancien 1941-1942 no 23 Bruges Musée Communal Groeninge L ™Art Flamand dans les collections britanniques August-September 1956 no 12 Bruges Groeningemuseum Hans Memling Five Centuries of Fact and Fiction 12 August-15 November 1994 p 136 no 35 catalogue by D de Vos with contributions by D Marachal and W Le Loup Philadelphia Philadelphia Museum of Art on loan September 2007-August 2010 http //www philamuseum org/exhibitions/380 html Philadelphia Philadelphia Museum of Art Hans Memling ™s Virgin Nursing the Christ Child and the Early Netherlandish Tondo 19 December 2009-17 March 2010 fig 2 catalogue by L DeWitt Bruges Memlingmuseum 2013-2014 on loan http //www scuderiequirinale it/categorie/mostra-memling-e-l-italia Rome Scuderie del Quirinale Memling Rinascimento fammingo 11 October 2014-18 January 2015 no 18 catalogued by T-H Borchert credit line Virgin and Child in the Städelmuseum Fankfurt one of the three http //www staedelmuseum de/en/collection/flemalle-panels-ca-1428-30 Flémalle Panels painted circa 1428-30 by the Master of Flémalle thought to be Robert Campin There is an earlier version with a landscaped background in the Metropolitan Museum of Art A third version in the Museum Mayer van den Bergh Antwerp is a workshop copy The attribution of the present work as an autograph work of Memling is not universal Barbara Lane lists it as disputed Dirk de Vos lists it as an autograph in his catalogue raisonné Hélene Mund et al and Lloyd DeWitt are recent authors who acknowledge it as Memling's work http //www deviationobligatoire com/2014/08/20/people-good-time-memling-museum-bruges/ A blog that amusingly notes the implausibly elevated breast http //www webcitation org/6dNaOKYz2 archived B Lane Hans Memling Master Painter in Fifteenth-Century Bruges London and Turnhout 2009 p 331 no B12 fig 271 as ˜Hans Memling ™ D de Vos Hans Memling The Complete Works Antwerp 1994 p 294 no 82 L DeWitt Hans Memling ™s Virgin Nursing the Christ Child and the Early Netherlandish Tondo Philadelphia 2009 passim H Mund C Stroo N Goetghebeur H Nieuwdorp The Mayer Van den Bergh Museum Antwerp Corpus of Fifteenth Century Painting in the Southern Netherlands and the Principality of Liege XX Brussels 2003 pp 51-53 christies online 5958386 10391 11 London 8 December 2015 dezoomified image uploaded without further processing Cropped of its gilded frame in http //www getpaint net/index html paint net <gallery> File Hans Memling - Virgin Suckling the Child - WGA14966 jpg mld Christie's 2012 sale image File Hans Memling - De heilige Maagd en het Kind jpg mld An earlier version with a landscaped background in the Metropolitan Museum of Art File Hans Memling school - Maria Lactans jpg mld A later workshop copy circa 1490 Museum Mayer van den Bergh Antwerp </gallery> PD-old-auto-1923 1494 DEFAULTSORT Memling; Virgin Mary nursing the Christ child; Christie's 2015 Paintings of Madonna and Child by Memling Early Netherlandish paintings of Madonna lactans Uploaded with UploadWizard |