Assumption of the Virgin

by Marcellus Coffermans

Inscriptions

Signed and dated: Marcelius koffermans fe. / 1562. (on base of tomb)

Exhibition history

Saint Paul (Minn.) Art Center, The Age of Belief, 1966–67, no. 8.

Publications

Walter Cohen, in Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, vol. 7, Leipzig, 1912, p. 172. “Pictures Bring Best Prices in Stillwell Sale,”Art News 26, 10 (1927), pp. 1–2. Marc Rudolf de Vrij, “Two Reconstructed Triptychs by Marcellus Coffermans and Their Place within His Oeuvre,” Städel-Jahrbuch, n.s., 18 (2001), p. 183 n. 7. M[arc] R[udolf] de Vrij, “Sources of Inspiration: A Reconstructed Triptych by Marcellus Coffermans,” Aachener Kunstblätter 62 (1998–2002), pp. 276–77, pl. 6. Marc Rudolf de Vrij, Marcellus Coffermans, Amsterdam, 2003, pp. 53–54, 65, 157, pl. 27. Susan Frances Jones in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 171-74, ill.

Quick Overview

Artist: Marcellus Coffermans (Netherlandish, 1524–1581)
Date: 16th century
Medium: Oil on panel
Dimensions: 26.9 × 18.4 cm (10 5/8 × 7 1/4 in.)
Type: Painting
Classification: painting
Style: sixteenth century
Place: Flanders
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Credit line: George F. Harding Collection
Accession no.: 1984.17

Provenance

Dr. John E. Stillwell, New York, by 1927; sold, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, Dec. 1–3, 1927, no. 244, to Clapp and Graham as agent for Harding [registrar’s records]; George F. Harding, Jr. (d. 1939), Chicago; bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago; offered for sale, Sotheby’s, New York, Dec. 2, 1976, no. 185, withdrawn; ownership transferred to the Art Institute, 1982; accessioned, 1984.

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.