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Kneeling Donor with St. John the Baptist

Kneeling Donor with St. John the Baptist

Artist/Maker (Netherlandish, before 1420–1495)
Dateca. 1470
MediumOil on panel
DimensionsOverall: 18 × 8 3/16 in. (45.7 × 20.8 cm)
Frame: 21 13/16 × 11 5/8 × 2 3/8 in. (55.4 × 29.5 × 6 cm)
Credit LineR. T. Miller Jr. Fund
Object number1942.128
Status
On view
More Information
This panel originally formed the left wing of a now dismantled triptych. The right wing representing St. Margaret is currently in the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, and the center panel is now lost. The spatial treatment of the background landscape (where the artist has included Christ's temptation and baptism) in this composition represents a significant shift from devotional to narrative imagery in Flemish painting. Vrancke van der Stockt probably trained with his father in Brussels, but the most pervasive influence on his art came from Rogier van der Weyden. Van der Stockt was a friend and possibly a collaborator with van der Weyden, and succeeded him as the official painter to the town of Brussels in 1464.
ProvenanceHenry Oppenheimer [1859-1932], London; (for sale 1936 Christie's auction "Catalogue of Pictures by Old Masters," London, 24 July, lot no. 6 (as by Aelbert Bouts)); (art market, Vienna, 1937); (E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York, by 1942); purchased 1942 by Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OHExhibition History
Paintings and Drawings from Five Centuries: Collection Allen Memorial Art Museum
  • M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (February 3, 1954 - February 21, 1954 )
The Waning Middle Ages
  • Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS (November 1, 1969 - December 1, 1969 )
Work in Context: Herri met de Bles and the Development of the Netherlandish Landscape
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (July 15, 1996 - September 9, 1996 )
Seven Hundred Years of Western Art
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 26, 2001 - June 2, 2002 )
Religion, Ritual and Performance in the Renaissance
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 28, 2012 - June 30, 2013 )
Collections
  • European
  • On View
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