DrawingsNetherlandish16th century

Christ Disputing with the Doctors in the Temple

c. 1510

Artists

Jan GossaertArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown ink on parchment

Culture

Netherlandish

Century

16th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

34.8 x 24 cm (13 11/16 x 9 7/16 in.)

Provenance

General Antoine-François Andréossy (according to Rodrigues sale catalogue). Antonio Barboza, Paris (L. 77, lower right). Eugène Rodrigues, Paris (L. 897, lower left), sold; [Muller, Amsterdam, 12-13 July 1921, lot 131, repr. pl. LII]; to Muller. Franz Koenigs, Haarlem; by descent to his heirs, sold; [Sotheby's, New York, 23 January 2001, lot 3, repr. p. 17], bought in and subsequently sold; to Vermeer Associates, Limited, Brampton, Ontario, sold; to Harvard University Art Museums; The Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Special Purchase Fund in honor of Mary and Michael Gellert, inv. no. 2004.85. NOTE: The sequence to Franz Koenigs directly from the auction at Muller's is not proven. The drawing may have bought in at that sale and then sold to Koenigs.

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