Saint Damian (or Cosmas), Bartolommeo Vivarini (attributed to), 1465 - 1480

Identification

Title(s)

Saint Damian (or Cosmas)

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-4012

Description

Halffiguur van de heilige Damianus (of misschien Cosmas) in de hand een ronde zalfdoos. Pendant van SK-A-4235.

Creation

Artist

painter: Bartolommeo Vivarini (attributed to)

Dating

1465 - 1480

Material and Technique

Physical features

tempera on panel

Material

panel

Measurements

h 45.5 cm × w 32 cm
d 10 cm

Subject

What

the twin-brothers Cosmas and Damian(us), martyrs and physicians; possible attributes: box of ointment, cap, gown, lancet, pestle and mortar, urinal

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

transfer 1960

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; collection Prof. Dr Otto Lanz (1865-1935), Amsterdam, 1906;{Amsterdam 1906a, p. 13, no. 8.} his widow, Anna Theresia Elisabeth Lanz - Willi (1870 - 1954), Amsterdam, 1935; from whom, CHF 2,000,000 and fl. 350,000, with xx other paintings, to Hans Posse (1879-1942), for Adolf Hitler’s Führermuseum, Linz, through the mediation of the dealer Katz, 1941;{Van Os 1978, p. 167.} war recuperation, SNK, 4 December 1945 (inv. no. NK 2362);{Provenance from 1934 to 1945 reconstructed by Ekkart et al. 2006; MCCP website, file card no. 4139.} on loan from the DRVK to the museum, 1952 (inv. no. SK-C-1438); transferred to the museum, 1960

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Relations

Documentation

Herkomst gezocht : deelrapportage, dl. 2, p. 139-140
The Early Venetian Paintings in Holland, Johan Rudolph Justus van Asperen de Boer, Hendrik Willem van Os
I Vivarini (Antonio, Bartolomeo, Alvise), Rodolfo Pallucchini, p. 122-123
Officina Ferrarese 1934 : seguita dagli ampliamenti 1940 e dai nuovi ampliamenti 1940-55 [ : 1 1956], Roberto Longhi, p. 138
Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, p. 450-451
Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst
The Burlington magazine, p. 701-702
Kunstchronik : Wochenschrift für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe, p. 63
The Burlington Magazine, 1978?
Simonetti, M., La pittura in Italia. Il Quattrocento. Dl. I, 1989
Berenson, B., Venetian School, I, p. 200, pl.
Berenson, B., Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, I, 1937, p. 200-201, afb. 116-117
Marle, R. van, The development of Italian Schools of Painting, XVIII, 1936, p. 117
Marle, R. van, La pittura all'esposizione d'arte antica italiana di Amsterdam, in: Bolletino d'Arte, XXVIII, 1935, p. 394, afb. 5

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