The theme of the Madonna and child holds a place of its own within Jan van Scorel’s oeuvre. We know of a few basic types on which endless variations were created, both inside and outside Scorel’s workplace. Madonna and child was a great example for other painters. At least four other versions are known to exist. This painting is from Scorel’s Haarlem period (1527-1530).
The theme of the Madonna and child holds a place of its own within Jan van Scorel’s oeuvre. We know of a few basic types on which endless variations were created, both inside and outside Scorel’s workplace. Madonna and child was a great example for other painters. At least four other versions are known to exist. This painting is from Scorel’s Haarlem period (1527-1530).
Er zijn tenminste vijf varianten op de originele compositie bekend: op paneel, 35 x 26,6 cm. Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, inv.nr. 1798; op paneel, 46,5 x 34,5 cm. Collectie H. Kisters, Kreuzlingen, Zwitserland (in 1975), afkomstig van Kunsthandel Goudstikker, Amsterdam (1922-1940), geveild bij H.W. Lange, Berlijn, 03.04.1940, cat.nr. 166, p. 38; op paneel, 40 x 31,5 cm. Galerie Robert Finck, Brussel (1964); op paneel, 35 x 33,5 cm. Collectie J. Schlegel, Fürth-Dambach (1973). De compositie is ook verwerkt op het middenpaneel van een triptiek, 106,5 x 149 cm (geopend) met een Anna-te-Drieën, Veiling Sotheby's, Amsterdam 06.05.1997, cat.nr. 26, p. 25.
Documentation
Catalogue of Paintings 1363-1600 : Centraal Museum Utrecht, project dir. and final ed. Liesbeth M. Helmus ; co-ed. Molly Faries and Liesbeth M. Helmus ; authors Molly Faries, Liesbeth M. Helmus and Dorien Tamis ; with contr. by J.R.J. van Asperen de Boer, Felice Geurdes and Peter Klein, (Utrecht, 2011), pp. 203-208.
Het culturele netwerk van Jan van Scorel : schilder, kanunnik, ondernemer en kosmopoliet, Gaila Jehoel, (Hilversum, 2020), p. 384, afb.
Jan van Scorel as Painter/Entrepreneur, M. Faries, (La peinture dans les Pays-Bas au 16e siècle : pratiques d'atelier infrarouges et autres methodes d'investigation), pp. 1-17 met afb. p. 10