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    Virgin and Child Crowned by Angels by Colijn de Coter
    Colijn de Coter. Virgin and Child Crowned by Angels, c. 1490. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
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    Virgin and Child Crowned by Angels

    by Colijn de Coter

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed: ORAPR[O]NObIS*A / AVE*REGINA*... / CELOROM [sic]*MATER*REGIS*ANGVLO / RVM (on hem of the Virgin’s mantle)

    Exhibition history

    New York, Kleinberger, Loan Exhibition of Flemish Primitives, 1929, no. 33. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 37. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1934, no. 118.

    Publications

    Max J. Friedländer, “Bernaert van Orley,” Jahrbuch der königlich preussischen Kunstsammlungen 29 (1908), pp. 229–31, fig. 4. Walter Cohen, in Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, vol. 7, Leipzig, 1912, p. 553. “Notes,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 6 (1913), pp. 36–37 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Objects in the Museum, 1913, p. 196. The Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Objects in the Museum, 1914, p. 208. “Loan Collections,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 7 (1914), p. 38. The Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings, vol. 2, August 1920, p. 61. Martin Conway, The Van Eycks and Their Followers, London, 1921 , pp. 263–64, pl. 12.3. The Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, and Paintings, May 1922, p. 70. Erwin Hensler, “Eine neuentdeckte Madonna von Colijn de Coter,” Jahrbuch der preussischen Kunstsammlungen 45 (1924), pp. 117, 120, fig. 2. Max J. Friedländer, Die altniederländische Malerei, vol. 4, Berlin, 1926, pp. 119–20, 147, no. 99, pl. 72; rev. English ed., Early Netherlandish Painting, Brussels and Leiden, 1969, pp. 65, 84, no. 99, pl. 91. Rose Mary Fischkin, “Martin A. Ryerson Collection of Paintings and Sculpture, XIII to XVII Century, Loaned to The Art Institute of Chicago,” unpub. MS, 1926, Ryerson Library, The Art Institute of Chicago, pp. 80–81. H. Fierens-Gevaert and Paul Fierens, Histoire de la peinture flamande des origines à la fin du XVe siècle, vol. 3, Paris and Brussels, 1929, p. 92. The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, 1932, p. 179, no. R 1201/17. Daniel Catton Rich, “Die Ausstellung ‘Fünf Jahrhunderte der Frühmalerei in Chicago,’” Pantheon 6 (1933), p. 376. Jeanne Maquet-Tombu, Colyn de Coter, peintre bruxellois, Brussels, 1937, pp. 31–32, 100–01, pl. 5. An American Correspondent, “Flemish and Dutch Paintings in the Ryerson Collection,” Connoisseur 119 (1947), pp. 48–49, fig. 5. Rolf Fritz, “Aquilegia: Die symbolische Bedeutung der Akelei,” Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch 24 (1952), p. 108, no. 42. AIC 1961, p. 106. Hélène Adhémar, Le Musée National du Louvre, Paris, Corpus de la peinture des anciens Pays-Bas méridionaux au quinzième siècle, 5, vol. 1, Brussels, 1962, p. 96. Beneth A. Jones, Bob Jones University: Supplement to the Catalogue of the Art Collection, Greenville, S.C., 1968, p. 47, under no. 201. Ursula Hoff and Martin Davies, The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Corpus de la peinture des anciens Pays-Bas méridionaux au quinzième siècle, 12, Brussels, 1971, p. 32. Catheline Périer-d’Ieteren, “Coter (Colyn ou Collin De),” in Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres, et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Biographie nationale, vol. 39, fasc. 1, Brussels, 1976, cols. 204, 206. Lorne Campbell, review of Elisa Bermejo Martinez, La pintura de los primitivos flamencos en España, in Burlington Magazine 123 (1981), p. 555. C[atheline] Périer-d’Ieteren, Colyn de Coter et la technique picturale des peintres flamands du XVe siècle, Brussels, 1985, pp. 57, 64–66, 68, 78, 85, 94–97, 128–29, 132, 146–48, 175–76, figs. 206–08. Guy Bauman and Walter A. Liedtke, Flemish Paintings in America: A Survey of Early Netherlandish and Flemish Paintings in the Public Collections of North America, Antwerp, 1992 , p. 324, no. 161 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Glad Tidings of Great Joy, Chicago, 1993, pp. 36–37 (ill.), 39. C[atheline] Périer-d’Ieteren, “Coter, Colijn,” in Dictionary of Art, vol. 8, 1996, pp. 24–25. Didier Martens, “Le Groupe des oeuvres au Feuillage brodé: Quelques Propositions,” in Le Maître au Feuillage brodé: Primitifs flamands; Secrets d’atelier, exh. cat., Lille, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 2005, pp. 59, 64, fig. 59. Martha Wolff in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 192-97, ill. John Nolan in Trinita Kennedy and John Nolan, A Divine Light: Northern Renaissance Paintings from the Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery, exh. cat., Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee, 2011, pp. 151, 153.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Colijn de Coter (Netherlandish, c. 1450– by 1540)
    Date
    c. 1490
    Medium
    Oil on panel
    Dimensions
    151.9 × 88.6 cm (59 13/16 × 34 7/8 in.); Framed: 179.8 × 117.2 × 16.6 cm (70 3/4 × 46 1/8 × 6 1/2 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    oil on panel
    Style
    15th century
    Place
    Belgium
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
    Accession no.
    1933.1039

    Provenance

    Probably Don Luis Portilla, Madrid, by 1880; sold, Madrid, 1880, no. 89 [first suggested by Campbell 1981; then attributed to Rogier van der Weyden, is described as “La Vírgen y el Niño; dos Angeles la coronan y otro presenta al Niño un canastillo de flores” (the Virgin and Child; two angels crown her and another presents a basket of flowers to the Child)]. J. G. Arthur, London [according to Colnaghi stock card]; sold to Colnaghi, London, Dec. 1906, with a half-share owned by Knoedler, Paris and New York [Colnaghi stock card]; sold by Knoedler, New York, to Ryerson, for $15,000, Oct. 31, 1912 [bill of sale, Art Institute Archives]; Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago; on loan to the Art Institute from 1913; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.

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