From the Infancy of Christ window, choir of the castle chapel (the Schlosskapelle) at Ebreichsdorf, south of Vienna.; Lolowrat-Liebsteinsky, Ebreichsdorf (1843-73) ; Count Joseph Arco-Zinneberg, Ebreichsdorf (1873-1922) ; [ Duveen Brothers, London, Paris and New York] ; Mrs
Berlin: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion, 1913. p. 199.
London: B. T. Batsford, Ltd., 1931. pl. XXVIII.
The Artist: For a biography of Petrus Christus, see the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History.The Subject and Function of the Painting: After Christ’s crucifixion, his corpse was taken down from the cross and prepared for burial
(March 1953), pp. 9–16; and Denis the Carthusian, “De dignitate et laudibus B.
the artist’s brother, Theo van Gogh, Paris (1889–d. 1891; sent to him by the artist on September 28, 1889); his widow, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, Amsterdam, in trust for their son, Vincent Willem van Gogh (1891–95; consigned by June 1895 to Lucien Moline (Galerie Laffitte), Paris; sold with six other paintings for fl
–B. de La Faille. "Vincent van Gogh."
Barbara Paley, 1978 Object Number: 1978.273a, b Inscription: (Right) H [Symbol]
Brooklyn, p. 84. Fischer, Henry G. 1977.
Paris: Henri Laurens, 1929. p. 326. Rorimer, James J.
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This picture was painted in 1653 for the Sicilian nobleman Don Antonio Ruffo (1610/11–1678) and sent from Amsterdam to his palace in Messina during the summer of 1654. Ruffo was an avid collector; at his death he had 364 paintings, including a work by Van Dyck, Saint Rosalie Interceding for the Plague-stricken of Palermo, now also in The Met (Spiegel Historiael 4 (September 1969), p. 456, fig. 9. B[ob]. Haak.
BottleThis large bottle has a domed profile, a slightly flared cylindrical neck, and a low tooled foot. The decoration is divided into a series of bands. The band on the upper body includes three large medallions, each containing an eight-petaled green-and-red central star from which a complex scrolling pattern radiates outward to create a floral pattern; the outlines are in red, the background is blue and gold, and there are eight alternating pointed elements in red and white
Vienna, 1, p. 31. M.
