The Adoration of the Magi Artist, attributed to: Bernard van Orley (Flemish, ca. 1488–1542)

1533

European Art

Not on view
Medium

Oil on panel

Dimensions

12 13/16 × 17 11/16 in. (32.5 × 45 cm)

Credit Line

Bequest of Dr. Herbert and Monika Schaefer

Accession Number

2020.37.7

Culture

Flemish

Period

16th century

Classification

Paintings

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Provenance
Wittgenstein Collection, Vienna. Kofer Collection, Vienna. With the Galerie St. Lucas, Vienna, 1937. Dr. Zdenko Bruck (1930–1979), Berne, Switzerland and Buenos Aires, by 1939; sale, Kende Galleries at Gimbel Brothers, New York City, June 5, 1940 lot 23. Sale, Sotheby’s, London, March 11, 1964, lot 128. Heinz Kisters (1912–1977), Kreuzlingen, Switzerland; [sale, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, December 29-30, 1967 through January 2-3, 1968, lot 34 (unsold)]; sale, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, November 18-27, 1968, lot 34. [Sale, Sotheby’s, London, December 9, 1992, lot 63 (unsold)] [Sale, Sotheby’s, Amsterdam, November 17, 1993, lot 79 (unsold)]. Sale, Sotheby's, London, May 4, 1995, lot 187; Dr. Herbert Schaefer (1910–2011) and Monika Schaefer (née Winter, died 2019), Malaga, Spain, by 1995 (on loan to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1995–2019); bequeathed to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2019
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Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

religious art

Signed

1533 (dated on scabbard, right middle ground)

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