Fragment from Christ Carrying the Cross: Mourning Virgin
1500
oil
panel
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
1500
oil
panel
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
Fragment from Christ Carrying the Cross: Mourning Virgin is a 1500 oil by Jean Hey, a Northern Renaissance work, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
You see a sad woman in a painting, likely a fragment of a larger scene. She's dressed in simple clothes and has a sorrowful face. This painting is interesting because it was once part of a bigger work, and scientists used special tools to figure out what the whole scene looked like. The tools helped find hidden details, like the strokes of Christ's hair. You can learn more about this style by looking at the work of artist: Jean Hey, (the Master of Moulins).
Scientific imaging techniques, which can reveal information that lies below or has been removed from the surface layers of a painting, have determined that Saint John the Evangelist and the Mourning Virgin were once part of the same painting, Christ Carrying the Cross . Infrared reflectography revealed drawn strokes of Christ’s curling hair at the lower right of the Saint John panel. X-radiography shows that the top of the cross, still visible in the Saint John panel, occupied the lower left of Mourning Virgin before being scraped away and overpainted. The original work may have been…
In Italy by the late 19th century. Giannino Marchig, by 1950 [photo of the painting at I Tatti, Fiesole, is marked "photo sent by Marchig Feb. 24 1950" with an annotation "Maitre de Moulins" in Bernard Berenson's handwriting; e-mail from Fiorella Superbi, I Tatti, to Tiffany Johnston, July 24, 2003, copy in curatorial file.]; sold to Colnaghi, London, July 1, 1952 [email from Timothy Warner-Johnson, Colnaghi, to Martha Wolff, June 25, 2003, copy in curatorial file]; sold to Sir Thomas Barlow, Bart. (d. 1964), London, July 1, 1952 [email cited above]; by descent to Nicholas Barlow, London;…
London, Colnaghi, Paintings by Old Masters, 1952, cat. 6. City of Manchester Art Gallery, Art Treasures Centenary: European Old Masters, 1957, no. 20. Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery, Paintings from Sir Thomas Barlow’s Collection, 1968, cat. 6. Hampstead, Kenwood House, on long-term loan with other pictures from the Barlow collection, 1997–July 2003. Paris, Galeries nationales, Grand Palais, France 1500: entre Moyen Age et Renaissance, 2010–11, cat. 70c. Art Institute of Chicago, Kings, Queens, and Courtiers: Art in Early Renaissance France, Feb. 26-May 30, 2011, cat. 62.
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Jean Hey (or Jean Hay) (fl. c. 1475 – c. 1505), now generally identified with the artist formerly known as the Master of Moulins, was an Early Netherlandish painter working in France and the Duchy of Burgundy, and…
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