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"An Important Loan," Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 16 December 1907 [page 2 of 2]
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By the kindness of Mr. H. C. Frick there is now on view at the Museum a painting of unusual interest representing the Deposition. It is a picture which has caused great interest among critics ever since it first became generally known at the Bruges Exhibition of Flemish Primitives in 1902. That it figured there at all was due presumably to an idea that its author may have been a Flemish artist, but when it was seen surrounded by undoubted Flemish paintings its isolation was so evident that critics were unanimous in endeavoring to find another origin for it. In the official catalogue at Bruges it was attributed to | By the kindness of Mr. H. C. Frick there is now on view at the Museum a painting of unusual interest representing the Deposition. It is a picture which has caused great interest among critics ever since it first became generally known at the Bruges Exhibition of Flemish Primitives in 1902. That it figured there at all was due presumably to an idea that its author may have been a Flemish artist, but when it was seen surrounded by undoubted Flemish paintings its isolation was so evident that critics were unanimous in endeavoring to find another origin for it. In the official catalogue at Bruges it was attributed to Antonello da Messina and identified with a picture of the same subject described by Boschini in Le ricche minore della Pittura. Mons. G. Hulin, however, considered it to belong to the school of Southern France, and the picture consequently figured again in the exhibition of the Primitifs Francais at Paris, in 1905. TO several more appropriate setting among the pictures of the Provencal school than it had amond the Netherlandish. Such prolonged hesitation about deciding even the country of origin of a picture is indeed most unusual and can only be explained by supposing its author to have been eclectic to a quite remarkable degree. The present writer discussing it in the year 1902 was impressed by the Flemish and Italian influences and came tentatively to the conclusion that it was by an Italian artist under the influence of Justus of Ghent who was settled in Urbino | ||
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BULLETIN OF THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
AN IMPORTANT LOAN
By the kindness of Mr. H. C. Frick there is now on view at the Museum a painting of unusual interest representing the Deposition. It is a picture which has caused great interest among critics ever since it first became generally known at the Bruges Exhibition of Flemish Primitives in 1902. That it figured there at all was due presumably to an idea that its author may have been a Flemish artist, but when it was seen surrounded by undoubted Flemish paintings its isolation was so evident that critics were unanimous in endeavoring to find another origin for it. In the official catalogue at Bruges it was attributed to Antonello da Messina and identified with a picture of the same subject described by Boschini in Le ricche minore della Pittura. Mons. G. Hulin, however, considered it to belong to the school of Southern France, and the picture consequently figured again in the exhibition of the Primitifs Francais at Paris, in 1905. TO several more appropriate setting among the pictures of the Provencal school than it had amond the Netherlandish. Such prolonged hesitation about deciding even the country of origin of a picture is indeed most unusual and can only be explained by supposing its author to have been eclectic to a quite remarkable degree. The present writer discussing it in the year 1902 was impressed by the Flemish and Italian influences and came tentatively to the conclusion that it was by an Italian artist under the influence of Justus of Ghent who was settled in Urbino