drawing
- Museum number
- SL,5218.196.1
- Description
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The Presentation in the Temple, left shutter of a triptych; classical interior, two women carrying children through an arch behind a right, the Christ Child held by the High Priest at a circular table at left, six other figures attending, a youth lifting a large candelabrum at left foreground and the Virgin (?) kneeling; after Jan Gossaert
Pen and grey ink with grey wash
- Production date
- 1520-1530 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 401 millimetres (right corner rounded)
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Width: 166 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From the Dürer album, 1637. A pair to SL,5218.196.2; a close from a drawing of the same size now attributed to Gossaert at Hamburger Kunsthalle, inv.no.22252. Probably vidimi to show a patron, or ricordi of a triptych by Gossaert now lost.
Literature: Maryan W. Ainsworth (ed.), 'Man, Myth, and Sensual Pleasures: Jan Gossart's Renaissance. The Complete Works', New York-New Haven-London, 2010, under cat.no.79, figs.268-269 and p.95.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- SL,5218.196.1
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: C,07.196