Hans Memling
Virgin and Child
ca. 1475-8017.5 cm diameter
Oil on wood
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931
Provenance
John Rushout, 2nd Lord Northwick, Northwick Park, Blockley, Worcestershire (until 1838)
sale, Christie's, London, 26 May 1838, nr. 117, as by Van Eyck; for £3.15 to Greenland
William Hart Dyke, later 7th Baronet, Lullingstone Castle, Dartford, Kent (in 1865)
Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 3rd Baronet, London (probably until 1912)
with Percy Moore Turner, Paris, until 1912; sold to Kleinberger
with Kleinberger, Paris and New York, 1912–15; sold for $25,000 to Dreicer
Michael Dreicer, New York (1915–16; sold to Kleinberger)
with Kleinberger, New York, 1916; sold for $23,400 to Friedsam
Michael Friedsam, New York (1916–d. 1931)
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Other works by Hans Memling
The Annunciation
ca. 1465-70
ca. 1465-70
Young Woman with a Pink
c. 1485-90
c. 1485-90
Bathseba in the Bath
King David and a Young Boy
Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara
early 1480s
early 1480s