Virgin and Child
Master of the Legend of the Magdalen, Netherlandish, active about 1483 - 1530
about 1490
Oil on panel
Overall: 15 7/8 × 11 1/4 in. (40.3 × 28.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Mrs. Harvey P. Hood W'18 Fund and the Robert J. Strasenburgh II 1942 Fund
P.985.53
Geography
Place Made: Netherlands, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Course History
FRIT 34, Sex and Gender in the Italian Renaissance, Courtney Quaintance, Spring 2015
ITAL 7, Women in Renaissance Venice, Courtney Quaintance, Spring 2015
ARTH 15.1, Gothic Art, Jane Carroll, Spring 2019
HIST 96.39, Saints and Material Devotion, Cecilia Gaposchkin, Fall 2021
Spanish 63.12, Got Las Meninas? Spanish Visual Culture and Baroque Imaginaries, Noelia Cirnigliaro, Winter 2023
Exhibition History
Creating the Feminine: Representations of Biblical Women from Sixteenth-Century Germany, A Space for Dialogue 85, Sara E. Trautz, Class of 2015, Mellon Special Project Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 8-December 21, 2014.
European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 30, 2008-March 8, 2009.
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 20-August 15, 2006.
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 30, 1993-June 22, 1997.
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 19, 2001-September 20, 2003.
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 16, 1997-April 17, 2001.
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 30, 1990-May 12 1993.
Renaissance Bronzes From The Collection of Roger Arvid Anderson, Class of 1968, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 13-August 29, 1993
Publication History
Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, April, 1986. pp. 44/45.
Dean, Stephanie. "The Mother's Voice", A Video Tape Presentation for partial requirement of MALS Degree, Dartmouth College
T. Barton Thurber, Twenty Years of Building a Collection: The Hood Museum of Art, Apollo (Vol. 162, no. 526), December 2005, London: Apollo Magazine, 2005, pp. 46-53, ill. p.48.
T. Barton Thurber, "European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art", Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2008, p.32, ill., no. 3.
Sara E. Trautz, Creating the Feminine: Representations of Biblical Women from Sixteenth-Century Germany, A Space for Dialogue 85, Hanover, New Hampshire, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2014, checklist no. 4.
Provenance
Likely Spanish private collection; Spanish Art Gallery, London, before 1928; Clemens Oppenheimer and Antonie Rosaline Clara Engelhorn, Hamburg, Germany, by 1928; by descent to Dr. Wolfgang Oppenheimer, Ascona, Switzerland; sold to Schaeffer Galleries, Inc., New York, New York before 1985; sold to present collection, 1985.
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