Master of the Pearl of Brabant
A Dutch painter who worked around 1470 is referred to as the Master of the Pearl of Brabant (left : Meester van de Parel van Brabant ). The emergency name is only mentioned in connection with a work, the Pearl of Brabant . It is a small-format winged altar that was probably used for private prayer. The oak triptych shows the adoration of the Magi in the middle, John the Baptist on the left wing and St. Christopher on the right wing.
Today the master of the pearl of Brabant is mostly identified with the Dutch painter Dieric Bouts . This is contradicted by the view that the work could only come from Bouts' workshop, possibly a work by his son, who took it over in 1475.
The altar is now in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich. It was bought in 1827 by King Ludwig I of Bavaria along with 213 other pictures from the collection of the two brothers Sulpiz and Melchior Boisserée in Cologne and Heidelberg.
literature
- K. Voll: Old Dutch painting from Jan van Eyck to Memling . Munich 1905, p. 124ff.
- E. Panofsky et al .: Old Dutch painting, its origin and essence, Cologne 2001
Web links
- Winged altar "Pearl of Brabant" , Alte Pinakothek, Munich