The Adoration of the Magi

• The Adoration of the Magi
• The adoration of the Magi

SK-A-671

inscription, lower centre, on the goblet held by Melchior: ‘AVE REGINA C[AELORUM]’

This painting ‘zooms in’ on the adoration of the magi to such an extent that, as a spectator, you feel almost present at the birth. The kings bring gifts for baby Jesus, who is not in a lowly stable, but in the ruins of a palace - that of King David, where, according to legend, Jesus was born many centuries later.

J.P. Filedt Kok, "Portret van een Afrikaanse man", Bulletin van de Vereniging Rembrandt 15 (2005), nr. 2, p. 10.

painter: Jan Jansz Mostaert, Haarlem

c. 1520 - c. 1525

olieverf op paneel

• height 51 cm x width 36.5 cm
• thickness 1.3 cm
• height 48.5 cm x width 34 cm

purchase 1879

Public domain

…; ? estate inventory, Anna van Renesse, Lady of Assendelft (1622-67), Kasteel Assumburgh, near Heemskerk, 1667, `Old gentleman´s room above the great chamber´ (`een oud schilderije´);{Transcribed in Wildeman 1905, p. 46.} ? her cousin, George Frederik van Renesse, Baron van Elderen (1620-81), Kasteel ´s Herenelderen, Tongeren;{Wildeman 1905, p. 42.} his granddaughter, Anna Margaretha, Gravin van Rennesse van Elderen (1703-75), and her husband, Frederik Johan van Isendoorn à Blois (1699-1771), Kasteel Cannenburg, Vaassen;{Lunsingh Scheurleer 1990, pp. 203-04.} recorded in the `cabinet of the apartment´ at Kasteel Cannenburg, Vaassen, no. 8 or 23, after 1726;{Between 1726 and 1742 Anna Margaretha, Gravin van Renesse van Elderen kept an account of the decoration of Kasteel Cannenburg: AG, AHC, no. 407; see Lunsingh Scheurleer 1990, pp. 203-04.} their grandson, Frederik Carel Theodoor, Baron van Isendoorn à Blois (1784-1865), Kasteel Cannenburg, Vaassen; his sale, Amsterdam (C.F. Roos), 19 August 1879, no. 1, as 15th-century Flemish school, fl. 2,200, to J.W. Kaiser, for the museum;{NHA, ARM, Kop, inv. 39, p. 273, no. 40 (1 August 1879), no. 41 (20 August 1879); NHA, ARS, IS, inv. 161, no. 323 (12 August 1879), no. 326 (27 August 1879); on loan to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2004-10}

J.P. Filedt Kok, "Portret van een Afrikaanse man", Bulletin van de Vereniging Rembrandt 15 (2005), nr. 2, p. 10.

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