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Triptych: Annunciation, Adoration of the Magi, Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish, 1502–1550
y1956-57

Information

Title
Triptych: Annunciation, Adoration of the Magi, Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Medium
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions
99.5 × 137.5 cm (39 3/16 × 54 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase
Object Number
y1956-57
Culture
Materials

Gustav Ritter Hoschek von Mühlheim, Prague (1847-1907); his sale, Kunstsalon G[ustav]. Pisko, Vienna, March 24, 1909, lot 43 (as Netherlandish Master ca. 1530 in the manner of Herri met de Bles). François van Waegeningh, The Hague; his sale, A[nton]. Mak, Amsterdam, in Pulchri Studio, The Hague, June 12, 1923, lot 1205 (as Antwerp Mannerist ca. 1530). [1] Gerrit Jan Willink (Winterswijk, Netherlands 1864-1933 Lyon, France)? [2]. D. Katz, Dieren, Netherlands (by 1936) [3]; Schaeffer Galleries, New York [American agents of Katz] (by 1938?) [4]; Delius Gallery, New York (in 1956); sold to Princeton University Art Museum.

[1] The provenance given in Georges Marlier, La Renaissance flamande: Pierre Coeck d'Alost (1966) lists "Dr. Aram, Baden-Baden (1926)" as an owner, but other scholars have cast doubt on this.

[2] Suggested in a memo dated November 3, 1955 in the Schaeffer Galleries archive, Getty Research Institute.

[3] Exhibited in Nijmegen in 1936 with a provenance of "former English collection."

[4] This date is given in Marlier, La Renaissance flamande (1966), p. 119.