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    Fragment from Christ Carrying the Cross: Mourning Virgin
    Jean Hey. Fragment from Christ Carrying the Cross: Mourning Virgin, c. 1500. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00001649

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    Fragment from Christ Carrying the Cross: Mourning Virgin

    by Jean Hey

    Provenance

    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; sold to the Art Institute through Simon Dickinson Ltd., London, as agent, 2004.

    Exhibition history

    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.

    Publications

    Ellis Waterhouse, “The Manchester Exhibition 1957,” Burlington Magazine 99 (1957), 415, fig. 21. Martha Wolff, “Reconstitution d’une scène de la Passion peinte par le Maître de Moulins,” Revue de l’art, no. 147 (2005), 58–66, figs. 8–11. "The Story of Art Retold: New Acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago," Apollo (October 2008): 46 (color ill.). Martha Wolff in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 2008), 25-30, ill. Martha Wolff et al., Kings, Queens, and Courtiers: Art in Early Renaissance France (New Haven and London, 2011), 131, ill. Yann Quero, Le Maître de Moulins: Peintre de quatre reines de France (Toulous: Éditions Arkuiris, 2022), 403-21. Bruno Amiot, "Le commanditaire du Saint Maurice de Jean Hey," Revue de l'art, no. 219 (2023), 8-17, fig. 3. Sophie Caron, "Jean Hey: Un Flamand en Bourbonnais," Dossiers de l'Art, no. 334 (Dec. 2025–Jan. 2026): 24–25, (ill.).

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Jean Hey (Master of Moulins; Netherlandish, active in France, c. 1480-c.1504)
    Date
    c. 1500
    Medium
    Oil on panel
    Dimensions
    27.5 × 19.9 cm (10 13/16 × 7 7/8 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    painting
    Style
    Renaissance
    Place
    Netherlands
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Lacy Withers Armour Fund, purchased with funds provided by the Old Masters Society, the Rhoades Foundation, Marilynn Alsdorf, Barbara Danielson in honor of James Wood, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Madigan, and John and Mary Gedo through the Old Masters Society, through prior gift of the George F. Harding, Mr. and Mrs. Morris I. Kaplan, Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester, and Max and Leola Epstein collections
    Accession no.
    2004.244

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