Accession number
MS M.1151
Object title
The death of Christ and the veil of the temple rent in two.
Created
Bruges, Belgium, ca. 1530
Credit line
Melvin R. Seiden Collection, 2006.
Description
1 leaf : vellum, ill. ; 62 x 85 mm
Provenance
The parent prayer book, whose text consisted of prayers from the translation into Castilian of Ludoph of Saxony's Vita Christi by the Franciscan friar Ambrosio Montesino (1544-1514), was most likely made for Fadrique Enríquez de Ribera (1476-1539), first marquis of Tarifa (after 1514) and knight of the Golden Fleece (1518); possibly identified in the 1532 inventory of Fadrique's library at his Casa de Pilates, Seville; possibly endowed to the monastery of Santa María de las Cuevas, Seville, following Fadrique's death in 1539; broken up in the 19th century; this cutting: bought from Sam Fogg by Peter Sharrer in 1988, part of a collection assembled in Spain in the 1960s; sold by Sharrer in London, Sotheby's, 6 July 2000, lot 35; bought by Melvin R. Seiden.
Notes
Ms. single leaf (cutting) from a prayerbook, written and illuminated in Bruges, Belgium, ca. 1509-1510.
Decoration: 1 miniature (in two compartments) depicting: in the left compartment the Crucifixion, with Christ at the moment of death with his head hanging forward, the Virgin with St. John and St. Mary Magdalene on the left, the richly-dressed centurion turning to his bearded companion at the lower right to say fearfully that truly this was the Son of God (Matthew 27:54); and in the right compartment the veil of the Temple rent in two at the very moment Christ died, from top to bottom according to Matthew 27:51, set in a romanesque church, the Ark of the Covenant on a table with marble pillars, the curtain before it in stripes of blue, yellow, red and white, with blue tassels, the two parts of the curtain tearing apart leaving the threads still breaking between the sections, coloured tiled floor, narrow liquid gold borders.
Artist: Simon Bening.
Miniature is laid down but apparently with text on the verso.
MS M.1151 sister leaves: Cleveland, Museum of Art, 2002.52 (quadripartite miniature with full border); Les Enluminures (3 quadripartite miniatures); Jörn Günther Antiquariat, (quadripartite miniature with full border); Paris, Louvre, Cabinet des dessins, RFML.AG.2020.5.1-2 (2 quadripartite miniatures); Philadelphia, Free Library, Lewis Collection, E M 6:1-2 (2 quadripartite miniatures with full borders); Private collection (ex-London, Christie's, 1 Dec. 2016, lot 9: quadripartite miniature); Private collection (ex-Paris, Paul Durrieu: quadripartite miniature with full border); Private collection, Belgium (ex-Ch. A. De Burlet: 2 pairs of joined miniatures); Private collection, USA (ex-Paris, Paul Durrieu: quadripartite miniature with full border); Saint Louis, Museum of Art, 66.1952 (1 horizontal miniature).
Decoration: 1 miniature (in two compartments) depicting: in the left compartment the Crucifixion, with Christ at the moment of death with his head hanging forward, the Virgin with St. John and St. Mary Magdalene on the left, the richly-dressed centurion turning to his bearded companion at the lower right to say fearfully that truly this was the Son of God (Matthew 27:54); and in the right compartment the veil of the Temple rent in two at the very moment Christ died, from top to bottom according to Matthew 27:51, set in a romanesque church, the Ark of the Covenant on a table with marble pillars, the curtain before it in stripes of blue, yellow, red and white, with blue tassels, the two parts of the curtain tearing apart leaving the threads still breaking between the sections, coloured tiled floor, narrow liquid gold borders.
Artist: Simon Bening.
Miniature is laid down but apparently with text on the verso.
MS M.1151 sister leaves: Cleveland, Museum of Art, 2002.52 (quadripartite miniature with full border); Les Enluminures (3 quadripartite miniatures); Jörn Günther Antiquariat, (quadripartite miniature with full border); Paris, Louvre, Cabinet des dessins, RFML.AG.2020.5.1-2 (2 quadripartite miniatures); Philadelphia, Free Library, Lewis Collection, E M 6:1-2 (2 quadripartite miniatures with full borders); Private collection (ex-London, Christie's, 1 Dec. 2016, lot 9: quadripartite miniature); Private collection (ex-Paris, Paul Durrieu: quadripartite miniature with full border); Private collection, Belgium (ex-Ch. A. De Burlet: 2 pairs of joined miniatures); Private collection, USA (ex-Paris, Paul Durrieu: quadripartite miniature with full border); Saint Louis, Museum of Art, 66.1952 (1 horizontal miniature).
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