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Triptych by Hans Memling
The Donne Triptych by
Hans Memling , c. 1470-80s,
National Gallery, London .
The Donne Triptych (or Donne Altarpiece ) is a hinged-
triptych altarpiece by the
Early Netherlandish painter
Hans Memling . It consists of five individual panel paintings: a central inner panel, and two double-sided wings. It was painted for the soldier, courtier and diplomat
Sir John Donne , probably sometime between the late 1470s or early 1480s, and contains portraits of Donne, his wife and daughter.
[1] It is kept in the collection of the
National Gallery , London, with the panels still in their original frames.
When Donne commissioned the work is unknown. Art historians have debated whether it was painted in the early 1480s, around the same time Memling painted
Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara , in New York at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art . An earlier date of sometime in the late 1470s is possible, at the time he completed the similar
St John Altarpiece , or it may have been painted as a precursor to that altarpiece.
[2]
[3]
[4]
The donor, Sir John Donne of Kidwelly, was a Picardy-born Welsh diplomat for the
House of York who visited Bruges at least once, in 1468 to attend
Charles the Bold and
Margaret of York 's wedding; how he became acquainted with Memling is as uncertain as when he commissioned the triptych.
[5]
The triptych was acquired for the National Gallery in 1957 from the
Chatsworth Collection of the
10th Duke of Devonshire in part settlement of duty on his estate.
[6]
References
^ Bauman (1986), p. 25
^
"Virgin and Child with Saints" . Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved May 30, 2014.
^
Donne Triptych
Archived April 25, 2014, at the
Wayback Machine . National Gallery. Retrieved May 30, 2014
^ Blum, 92
^ Bruce, 79
^ "Now on view at the National Gallery: The Memlinc Triptych from Chatsworth". Illustrated London News . 29 March 1958. p. 498.
Sources
Bauman, Guy. "Early Flemish Portraits 1425-1525". The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin , New Series, volume 43, no. 4, 1986.
JSTOR
3269088
Blum, Shirley Neilson. Early Netherlandish Triptychs: A Study in Patronage . Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969
Bruce, Donald. Contemporary Review . Aug 94, Vol. 265 Issue 1543, p. 72.
Individual religious panels
Virgin and Child Enthroned with two Musical Angels ,
c. 1467
Scenes from the Passion of Christ ,
c. 1470
Adoration of the Magi ,
c. 1471
Mater Dolorosa ,
c. 1475
Madonna and Child with Angels ,
c. 1479
Allegory with a Virgin ,
c. 1479 –1480
Advent and Triumph of Christ ,
c. 1480
Mater Dolorosa ,
c. 1480
Mystic Marriage of St Catherine ,
c. 1480
Angel Musicians , 1480s
Pagagnotti Triptych ,
c. 1480
Christ Surrounded by Musician Angels ,
c. 1480s
Annunciation , 1480s
Adam and Eve ,
c. 1485
Bathsheba ,
c. 1485
Madonna and Child with Saint James and Saint Dominic ,
c. 1485
Polyptychs
Last Judgment ,
c. 1467 –1471
Diptych of an elderly couple ,
c. 1470 –1472
Diptych of Jean de Cellier ,
c. 1475
Jan Floreins Altarpiece , 1479
St John Altarpiece , 1479
Adoration of the Magi ,
c. 1479 –1480
Adriaan Reins Altarpiece , 1480
Donne Triptych ,
c. 1480
Moreel Triptych , 1484
Earthly Vanity and Divine Salvation ,
c. 1485
Benedetto Portinari Triptych , 1487
Diptych of Maarten van Nieuwenhove , 1487
St. Ursula Shrine ,
c. 1489
Christ Surrounded by Singing and Music-making Angels ,
c. 1483 –1494
Portraits
Portrait of a Man in a Red Hat ,
c. 1465 –1470
Portrait of a Man ,
c. 1470 –1472
Portrait of Tommaso Portinari ,
c. 1470 –1472
Portrait of Maria Portinari ,
c. 1470 –1472
Portrait of an Elderly Man ,
c. 1470 –1475
Portrait of an Elderly Woman ,
c. 1470 –1475
Portrait of a Man with a Pink Carnation , 1475
Portrait of Benedetto Portinari , 1478
Portrait of Willem Morell ,
c. 1480
Portrait of a Man with a Roman Medal ,
c. 1480
Portrait of Barbara van Vlaendenbergh ,
c. 1480
Sibylla Sambetha ,
c. 1480
Portrait of Folco Portinari ,
c. 1490