Christ Presented to the People
1480
oil
panel
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
1480
oil
panel
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
Christ Presented to the People is a 1480 oil by North Netherlandish, a Northern Renaissance work, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
This painting shows Jesus being presented to a crowd. It's a scene from the Bible. The artist used earthy tones, which was common in this region. This style is interesting because it's rare to see paintings from this time and place. The northern Netherlands didn't produce as much art as the south, and many works were destroyed. You can see more examples of this style by looking into the technique: glazing.
This is a rare example of a surviving 15th-century painting from the northern provinces of the Netherlands (present-day Holland). This region had fewer centers of artistic production than the more populous southern Netherlands, and it also experienced substantial destruction of artworks during the iconoclastic outbursts of the mid-16th century. The few surviving panel paintings, as well as illuminated manuscripts, from this region are often characterized by an earthy realism. Here the artist was equally interested in the hostile reactions of the crowd as he was in giving poignancy to the…
Italian art market. Count Contini, Rome, by 1923 [Friedländer 1927]. Roerich Museum, New York, by 1927; sold, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, Mar. 27–28, 1930, no. 64, to Ryerson for $7,000 [exhibited at the Roerich Museum in 1927; Robert Harshe, director of the Art Institute, acted as Ryerson’s agent at the Roerich sale; letter from Harshe to Ryerson, Apr. 1, 1930, Art Institute Archives].; Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago; on loan to the Art Institute from 1930; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.
New York, Corona Mundi International Art Center (Roerich Museum), Exhibition of Old Masters, 1927, no. 11, as the Master of the Virgo inter Virgines. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 49, as the Master of the Virgo inter Virgines. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1934, no. 124, as the Master of the Virgo inter Virgines.
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This painter made religious scenes in the late 1400s, when Northern artists were shifting from stiff Gothic styles to richer oil paint and deeper emotion.
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