Master of the Magdalene Legend

Private European collection (with Hans Wendland probably acting as agent for the collectors), by March 1939;

With Theodor Fischer, Lucerne, Switzerland;

From whom acquired by Heinz Kisters (1912-1977), Kreuzlingen, Switzerland, by 1953;

From whom acquired by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967);

His posthumous sale, London, Christie's, 26 June 1970, lot 25 (as Circle of the Master of Moulins), where unsold;

Heinz Kisters (1912-1977), Kreuzlingen, Switzerland;

Thence by descent;

From whom acquired by Aso O. Tavitian via private sale, via Sotheby's New York, 2010.

L. Campbell, The Early Flemish Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, Cambridge 1985, pp. 34-35, under cat. no. 23 (as another version of the panel he tentatively attributes to Pieter van Coninxloo in the Royal Collections);

C. Sterling, La Peinture médiévale à Paris, Paris 1987, vol. II, pp. 134–135, reproduced fig. 99;

P. Lorentz, Corpus de la peinture des anciens Pays-Bas Méridionaux, Musée du Louvre Paris, Paris 2001, p. 223, cat. no. 199(2) (as Attributed to the Circle of the Master of Moulins);

G. Schmift-von-Rhein, Kaiser Maximilian I: Bewahrer und Reformer, Wetzlar 2002, p. 180, cat. no. 323, reproduced (as Jean Perréal, circa 1495);

P. Matthews, in Women of Distinction: Margaret of York, Margaret of Austria, exhibition catalogue, D. Eichberger (ed.), Leuven 2005, p. 142, cat. no. 48, reproduced (as Southern Netherlandish School, circa 1495);

J.L. Pypaert, "Early Netherlandish Painting XV?: Joseph van der Veken," in Autour de la Madeleine Renders, Un aspect de l'histoire des collections, de la restauration et de la contrafaçon en Belgique dans la première moitié du XXe siècle (2008), pp. 225-226, cat. no. 94, reproduced (as possibly Jef Van der Veken, but unable to confirm without further technical investigation);

S. Haskins, "Mary Magdalene and the Burgundian Question," in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 73 (2010), p. 123 note 93 (as South Netherlandish School, circa 1495).

Mechelen, Lamot Congress and Heritage Center, Women of Distinction: Margaret of York, Margaret of Austria, 17 September - 18 December 2005, no. 48 (as Southern Netherlandish School, circa 1495).