About the Artwork
The Virgin Enthroned
15th century
The Master of Frankfurt
1460-1520
Netherlandish
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Paint on oak panel
Unframed: 28 1/2 × 23 1/8 inches (72.4 × 58.7 cm) Framed: 34 7/8 × 29 1/8 × 2 1/2 inches (88.6 × 74 × 6.4 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of James E. Scripps
89.59
Public Domain
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Provenance
Private Collection (Florence, Italy);collection of James E. Scripps [1835-1906] (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1889-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Catalogue of the Scripps Collection. Detroit, 1889, no. 5 [attributed to Hugo van der Goes].
"The Scripps Old Masters." The Collector 2, no. 13 (May 1, 1891): pp. 149-152; p. 150 [as attributed to Hugo van der Goes, “Virgin on a Marble Throne with the Child”].
Scripps, James E. Handbook of the Paintings Ancient and Modern Belonging to the Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1895, pp. 8-9 [as by Hugo Van Der Goes].
Handbook of Paintings by the Old Masters. Detroit, 1910, p. 14, no. 6 [as Hugo van der Goes].
Burroughs, C. Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Contemporary Arts and Crafts. Detroit, 1920, p. 68, no. 70 [as Hugo van der Goes].
Heil, W. DIA Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1930, p. 68, no. 70.
Richardson, E.P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. Detroit, 1944, p. 85, no. 637.
Valentiner, W. R. "Jan de Vos, The Master of Frankfort." The Art Quarterly 8 (1945): p. 212 (fig. 8).
Friedländer, M. J. Early Netherlandish Painting, vol. 7. Leiden-Brussels, 1971, p. 91 [notes & comments by H. Pauwels].
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The Master of Frankfurt, The Virgin Enthroned, 15th century, paint on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of James E. Scripps, 89.59.
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