Ladoration des mages jan gossaert biography

  • Provenance of Jan Gossaert's 'The Adoration of the Kings' in the full catalogue entry by Lorne Campbell.
  • Adoration of the Magi is an oil on panel painting from the early 1520s by the Dutch Renaissance artist Jan Mostaert in the collection of the Rijksmuseum.
  • To celebrate the acquisition, a book was published: The „Adoration of the Magi‟ by Jan. Mabuse Formerly in the Collection of the Earl of Carlisle.

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    Jan Gossaert (Jean Gossart), 'The Adoration of the Kings'

    Provenance

    No reference to NG2790 has been found before 1600, when it was in a chapel dedicated to the Virgin in the church of the Benedictine Abbey of Geraardsbergen (Grammont) in East Flanders, south of Ghent and west of Brussels (fig.7). In August 1600 Albert and Isabella, the rulers of the Spanish Netherlands, returning from Oudenaarde to Brussels, visited the abbey, saw the painting and asked to have it.1 On 5 April 1601 Albert authorised a payment of £2,100 to the abbot for its purchase2 and on 18 May 1601 it was recorded that the painter Gijsbrecht van Veen, residing in Brussels, had been sent to Geraardsbergen to buy from the Abbey of St Andrew the painting in oil on panel of the 'Adoration of the Three Kings or Magi', 2 ¾ ells high by 2 ells wide, with its plain frame. It was to be placed on the high altar of the chapel of the palace in Brussels (fig.8).3 The picture was reframed and installed in the chapel in 1603.4 It was mentioned in several sources of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.5

    fig.7 Petrus Canivé, 'The Abbey of Geraardsbergen from the North East' © Geraardsbergen, De Abdij

    fig.8 J.P. van Bauerscheit, 'Interior of the Chapel in the old palace at Brussels' © 

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    File:Jan Gossaert onslaught - Latria of depiction Kings.jpg

      Artist
     (1478–1532)  
    Alternative names
    Jan Gossart, Jan Gossaert van Mabuse, Jan Gossaert van Mauberge, Jan Gossart van Mabuse, Jan Gossart van Mauberge, Joannes Malbodius, Jan Mabuse
    DescriptionSouthern Netherlandish painter, cream of the crop and etcher
    Date of birth/death 1478 betwixt 12 Sept 1532 folk tale 13 Oct 1532
    date QS:P,+1532-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1319,+1532-09-12T00:00:00Z/11,P1326,+1532-10-13T00:00:00Z/11
    Location of birth/deathCategory:Maubeuge, Hainaut, nowadays FranceMiddelburg
    Work period1508 –1532 
    Work location
    Authority file
    artist QS:P170,Q4233718,P1774,Q346952
    Title
    The Admiration of depiction Kings 
    label QS:Len,"Madonna on rendering crescent goslow baby Word, Adoration interpret the Kings, ..."
    Object typepainting Genrereligious art DescriptionDepicted peopleChrist Child Date circa 1500sMediumoil appreciation panel
    medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259
    Dimensions height: 37 cm (14.5 in); width: 52 cm (20.4 in)
    dimensions QS:P2048,37U174728
    dimensions QS:P2049,52U174728
    Collection
    institution QS:P195,Q180788
    Accession numberExh

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    File:Jan Gossaert 001.jpg

    Artist
     (1478–1532)  
    Alternative names
    Jan Gossart, Jan Gossaert van Mabuse, Jan Gossaert van Mauberge, Jan Gossart van Mabuse, Jan Gossart van Mauberge, Joannes Malbodius, Jan Mabuse
    DescriptionSouthern Netherlandish painter, drawer and etcher
    Date of birth/death 1478 between 12 September 1532 and 13 October 1532
    date QS:P,+1532-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1319,+1532-09-12T00:00:00Z/11,P1326,+1532-10-13T00:00:00Z/11
    Location of birth/deathCategory:Maubeuge, Hainaut, today FranceMiddelburg
    Work period1508 –1532 
    Work location
    Authority file
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