The Madonna and Child with an Angel
style of Master of the Legend of Saint Catherine (fl.1470-1500)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1470 - 1499
Materials
Oil on panel (oak)
Measurements
222 x 140 mm (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in)
Place of origin
Netherlands
Order this imageCollection
Upton House, Warwickshire
NT 446758
Summary
Oil painting on oak panel (arched top), The Madonna and Child with an Angel, style of the Master of the Legend of Saint Catherine (fl.1470-1500), late 15th century. The Madonna, wearing a red robe, is seated on the ground before a low brick wall, holding the Child towards an angel, who kneels at the left and offers Him an apple; beyond the garden wall is a valley with a wide river flowing round a castle and two Dominican monks walking along a path on the near bank.
Provenance
Count Gustav Adolf Wilhelm, Graf von Ingenheim (1789 – 1855), at the Palais Voss, Berlin (Wilhelmstraβe 78), and Villa Ingenheim, Potsdam; his widow, Eugénie de Thierry (1808 - 1881); in 1883 at Schloss Reisewitz, on the Neiβe, Silesia (the former residence of Eugénie de Thierry, acquired 1870); thence by descent; A. S. Drey of Munich [possibly in 1922 en masse with other pictures, and thus escaping the looting of Schloss Reisewitz in 1945]; in 1925 with Knoedler; sold by Knoedler to the Hon. Walter Samuel, future 2nd Viscount Bearsted (1885 – 1948; succ. 1927) in June 1925, for £1,200, as ‘Memling School’; bequeathed by him to the National Trust with Upton House and gardens, and the major part of his collections
Credit line
Upton House, The Bearsted Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
style of Master of the Legend of Saint Catherine (fl.1470-1500), artist previously catalogued as school of Hans Memling (Seligenstadt 1430/40 – Bruges 1494), artist
