Master of the André Madonna

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An old Dutch painter who is unknown by name and who painted a “Madonna with an inkwell” around 1498 or 1520 is referred to as the master of the André Madonna . It shows Mary teaching the Christ Child to write. The master's emergency name was given to him after the place where this picture was kept, the Jacquemart-André collection in Paris.

The painting Virgin and Child under Angels (around 1500) is also assigned to the master of the André Madonna . The motif of this painting is based on the Madonna at the fountain (1439) by the Dutch master Jan van Eyck , but, unlike van Eyck , it sits in front of the city backdrop of Bruges . There are several variants of this Madonna portrait, which - like the Virgin and Child under Angels in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection in Madrid - are attributed by art experts to the master of the André Madonna . However, by pointing out differences between some of these images, the experts leave open the possibility that these e.g. B. could also have originated in the immediate vicinity of Gerard David . The painting Virgin and Child with Four Angels (between 1510–1515), which has the same motif of the Virgin and Child under Angels, comes from him and shows a city view of Bruges from the same point of view in the background.

Works (selection)

  • Madonna with the inkwell (André-Madonna), Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris
  • Madonna and Child under Angels , around 1500, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum , Madrid
  • Madonna in the Archway (Madonna in Archway), private property
  • Madonna in the Archway (Madonna in Archway), private property

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Max J. Friedländer : Old Dutch painting. Volume 9: Joos van Cleve - Jan Provost - Joachim Patenier. Paul Cassirer, Berlin 1931, pp. 95-96.
  2. ↑ Corpus de la peinture des anciens pays-bas méridionaux et de la principauté de Liège au quinzième siècle. Volume 19: Philippe Lorentz, Micheline Comblen-Sonkes: Musée du Louvre, Paris. Part 3. 2 volumes (text part. Panel). Center International d'Etude de la Peinture Médiévale des Bassins de l'Escaut et de la Meuse, Brussels 2001 ISBN 2-7118-4321-1 (text part), ISBN 2-7118-4322-X (table part).
  3. ↑ cf. on this and in general on this subject Charles P. Parkhurst Jr .: The Madonna of the Writing Christ Child. In: The Art Bulletin. Vol. 23, No. 4, 1941, ISSN  0004-3079 , pp. 292-306 (English).
  4. ↑ Master of the André Madonna: Virgin and Child under Angels . Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum , Madrid, Nº INV. 255 (1930.62)
  5. ↑ Johann Conrad Ebbinge-Wubben in: The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. Text tape. Villa Favorita, Castagnola et al. 1969, pp. 206-207.
  6. ↑ Master of the André Madonna: Virgin and Child under Angels . Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum , Madrid, Nº INV. 255 (1930.62)
  7. ^ Sotheby auction house, London, sale December 1977, lot 155
  8. ^ Sotheby auction house, New York, Sale May 1994,: Lot 25
personal data
SURNAME Master of the André Madonna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Old Dutch painter
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: after 1520