Maria met kind
c. 1530
Medium
oil on panel
Dimensions
34.5; 27.5
About this artwork
…; the dealer Robert Langton Douglas (1864-1951), London;{Note RMA.} …; collection Adolphe Schloss (c. 1842/43-1910) and his wife, Lucie Schloss (1858-1938);{Note RMA; Utrecht 1913, suppl., p. 10, no. 167.} confiscated by the Nazis from their children, Château de Chambon, near Tulle, for Adolph Hitler’s Führermuseum, 1943; war recuperation, CRA, 30 January 1946;{MCCP website, no. 8438.} restituted to the Schloss family after WW II; their sale, Paris (Galerie Charpentier), 25 May 1949, no. 29, fl...
About the Artist
Lucas van Leyden · 1484–1533
Lucas van Leyden (1494–1533) was a Dutch painter and printmaker who stands among the greatest engravers of the Northern Renaissance. Born in Leiden as either Lucas Hugensz or Lucas Jacobsz, he lived and worked primarily in his native city, achieving international renown that rivaled the German master Albrecht Dürer. Lucas van Leyden revolutionized Netherlandish printmaking and was among the first...