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After Hans Baldung, called Grien Schwäbisch Gmund 1484/5 - 1545 Strasburg
Description
- Hans Baldung, called Grien
- Virgin and Child with Three Angels
- oil on panel
Provenance
Postrath Beisch, Stuttgart, by 1886;
Sigmund Roehrer Collection, Unterschoendorf (Ammersee), 1912;
Rudolf Chillingsworth, Lucerne, Switzerland;
By whom sold Lucerne, Galerie Fischer, September 5, 1922, cat. no. 40 (as Attributed to Baldung and monogrammed and dated lower right on a stone), for $11,000;
Paravinci collection, Basel, 1923;
Jules S. Bache;
By whom sold (Property from the Estate of the late Jules S. Bache of his heirs and of Hazkate Company), New York, Kende Galleries, April 23, 1945, no. 19 (as by Hans Baldung Grien);
Cosmos Art Corporation (Frederick Stern), New York until 1946;
From whom purchased by The Museum with funds donated by William Randolph Hearst, 1946 (acc. no. 46.16.17).
Exhibited
Zurich, Zürcher Kunsthaus, Gemälde und Skulpturen, 1430-1530, September - November 1921, p. 5, no. 13 (as by Hans Baldung Grien);
Indianapolis, Indiana, John Herron Art Institute, Holbein and his Contemporaries, October 22-December 24, 1950, no. 2, (as by Hans Baldung Grien) reproduced;
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum, Holbein and his Contemporaries, 1950.
Literature
G. Von Térey, “Die Roehrerische Madonna mit Kind von Hans Baldung Grien”, in Muenchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst VII, 1912, p. 147-150;
H. Curjel, Hans Baldung Grien, Munich 1923, p. 75, 151 (as by Hans Baldung Grien);
O. Fischer, Hans Baldung Grien, 1939, p. 32, pl. 13;
H. Perseke, Hans Baldungs Schaffen in Freiburg, Freiburg 1941, p. 56, 88, no.13 (as by Hans Baldung Grien);
A. J. Schardt, Quarterly: Los Angeles County Museum, vol. 5, no. 4 (Winter 1946), Los Angeles County Museum, Winter 1946, pp. 3-4, reproduced;
Thirty-Five Paintings from the Collection of Los Angeles County Museum, 1950, cat. no. 4, p. 1, 8;
A Catalogue of Flemish, German, Dutch and English Paintings, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles 1954, p. 34, cat. no. 33 (as Hans Baldung Grien), reproduced;
W. Hugelshofer, "Wiederholungen bei Hans Baldung, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte vol. 32, no. 1, 1969, 29-43;
Los Angeles County Museumof Art Members' Calendar 1970, December 1970, p. 12;
S. Schaefer and P. Fusco, European Painting and Sculpture in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles 1987, reproduced p. 14 (as Hans Baldung Grien).