The Tree of Jesse

The Tree of Jesse

SK-A-3901

Pictured here symbolically is Christ’s family tree. It grows out of the sleeping figure of Jesse, forefather of a line of kings that included, according to tradition, Salomon, David and Jesus.The branches are filled with the kings of Israel, among them King David with his harp. At top, the Virgin is enthroned with the Christ Child on her lap.

• painter: circle of Geertgen tot Sint Jans, Haarlem
• painter: Jan Jansz Mostaert [rejected]

c. 1500

olieverf op paneel

height 89.8 cm x width 60.6 cm

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

purchase 1956

Public domain

...; ? Wittevrouwenklooster, Haarlem;{Van Luttervelt 1948, pp. 265-68.} ? inventory, Commandery of St John, 1572, the small office (`Tauoreel vanden boom van Iesse´), or in the salon (`Tauoreel gechiert vanden boom van Iesse´);{Van Bueren 1993, pp. 394-96, 494-96.} ? inventory, Commandery of St John, Adriaensdoelen, Haarlem, 1573, the upper room with wainscotting (`Tauoreel sonder deuren vanden boom van Iesse´);{Van Bueren 1993, pp. 395, 515.} …; Kvovinsky, St Petersburg, c. 1850;{Note RMA.} ...; Demidoff, St Petersburg [possibly Paul Demidoff (1839-85)];{Note RMA.} …; sale, Chevalier F. Meazza (Milan), sold on the premises (Riblet), 15 (21) April 1884 sqq., no. 200, as Quinten Massijs; ...; Count Grégoire S. Stroganoff (? -1910), Palazzo Stroganoff, Rome, as Geertgen, 1907;{Dülberg III, 1907, p. 8.} from whom purchased by the dealer Charles Albert de Burlet, c. 1923-24;{Note RMA.} from whom purchased by Catalina von Pannwitz (1876-1959), De Hartekamp, Heemstede, as Jan Mostaert, 1926;{Coll. cat. Von Pannwitz 1925-26, p. 3, no. 14, plate VIII.} from whom, as Geertgen, through the dealer S. Rosenberg, New York, $ 58,000 (approx. fl. 211,000) to the museum, with support from the Vereniging Rembrandt, 1956

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