The Marriage of the Virgin

The Marriage of the Virgin

about 1499-1500
Artist
Nicolas Dipre, French
Born: Amiens, France, Uncertain
Work Locations: Avignon, France
Active Years: 1495-1532
Object
painting
Medium
Oil paint on panel
Accession Number
1961.181
Credit Line
Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Nicolas Dipre, The Marriage of the Virgin, about 1499–1500. Oil paint on panel; 10 5/8 × 13 3/4 in. (27 × 34.9 cm). Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1961.181

Dimensions
image height: 10 5/8 in, 26.9875 cm; image width: 13 3/4 in, 34.9250 cm; sight height: 10 1/2 in, 26.6700 cm; sight width: 14 3/4 in, 37.4650 cm; frame height: 15 in, 38.1000 cm; frame width: 18 1/4 in, 46.3550 cm; frame depth: 2 1/2 in, 6.3500 cm
Department
European and American Art Before 1900
Collection
European Painting and Sculpture before 1900
Known Provenance
Saint Siffrein, Carpentras, France 1499–1500. Monastery of the Trinitarians, Marseille. Pierre Louis Marie, comte de Demandolx Dedons [1866-1955], Marseille, by 1937. [1] (Newhouse Gallery, New York), by 1953; [2] (Frederick Mont, New York); sold to Samuel H. Kress [1863-1955] on 25 January 1954; gifted to the Denver Art Museum, 1961 [1] Lent by Demandolx Dedons to the exhibition in Paris in 1937. See also Louis Dimier, "Les Primitifs Français: IV Deuxième Production Provençale," Gazette des Beaux Arts, April 1938, p. 231. [2] Advertised by Newhouse in the November 1953 issue of Connoisseur, p. lviii. Newhouse and Mont frequently worked together. Provenance research is on-going at the Denver Art Museum and we will post information as it becomes available. Please e-mail provenance@denverartmuseum.org, if you have questions, or if you have additional information to share with us.
Exhibition History
  • "Jan van Eyck, Early Netherlandish Painting and Southern Europe"—Groeningemuseum, Bruges, 03/15/2002 - 06/30/2002

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