Title

Christ Appearing to His Mother Alone

painter

Flandes, Juan de (Posible procedencia de los Países Bajos, ca. 1465 - Palencia, ca. 1519)

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Inscriptions / Marks

Issuing from Christ: "REXVREXI · ADVC · TECNVM · SVM · ALLELVYA". 

Object history

Listed as 'As She Appeared to Our Lady Alone in the Morning' in the 1505 estate sale of Isabella I of Castile’s possessions in Toro, it was acquired along with nine other panels from the collection by Francisca Enríquez, Marchioness of Denia. It was located in Cologne and Berlin, where Eduard Simon sold it to the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in 1929. It remained in the Staatliche Museen, East Berlin, from 1949 until it transferred to the Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, in 1997.

Description

This painting is part of the Polyptych of Isabella I of Castile, which originally consisted of forty-seven small-format panels. It depicts the moment when Christ has risen and appears before his mother, Mary, to deliver the news. Juan de Flandes' Flemish training is evident in the meticulous detail of the landscape, the treatment of the attire, and the conception of space.

Locations

• 1929 - 1997

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  Bode Museum (old Kaiser Friedrich Museum). Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlín (Germany)

• 1997 - present

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  Gemäldegalerie. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlín (Germany)