Anna van Bergen, Marquise De Veere
painterAfter
Jan Gossaert
(Maubeuge, France, about 1472 - 1532, Antwerp)
Dateabout 1526-1530
Place MadeNetherlands, Europe
MediumOil on oak panel
Dimensions52.7 x 42.7 cm (20 3/4 x 16 13/16 in.)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberP21s13
eMuseum ID730168
EmbARK ObjectID12904
TMS Source ID1951
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
BibliographyNotesJacob Burckhardt et al. Le Cicerone: guide de l'art antique et de l'art moderne en Italie (Leipzig, 1885; Translation, Paris, 1892), p. 638. (the sitter as an anonymous woman; as by the Master of the Death of the Virgin)
Jacob Burckhardt et al. Der Cicerone: eine Anleitung zum Genuss der Kunstwerke Italiens, vol. 2 (Leipzig, 1893), p. 651. (the sitter as Margaret of Austria; as ascribed to Jan Gossaert)
Carl Justi. "Ein Bildnis der Isabella von Österreich, von Mabuse." Zeitschrift für Bildende Kunst, vol. 6 (1895), pp. 161-68, 200-01, ill. (the sitter as Isabella of Austria; as attributed to Jan Gossaert, formerly attributed to Clouet)
Art Exhibition: Mrs. John L. Gardner, 152 Beacon St., Boston. Exh. cat. (Boston, 1899), p. 5, no. 10. (the sitter as a Dutch lady; as by Scorel)
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 14. (the sitter as anonymous woman; as by Scorel)
John La Farge et al (eds.). Noteworthy Paintings in American Private Collections, vol. 1 (New York, 1907), pp. 67-69, 142-43, 227-33, ill. (attributed variously by several contributors: the sitter as not Isabella of Austria, a lady who lived in France from 1515-1530, or Anna van Bergen, Maquise de Veere; as attributed to Scorel, Bernard van Orley, or Jan Gossaert, formerly attributed to Holbein)
Georges H. de Loo. "The Portrait of Jacqueline de Bourgogne, by Mabuse." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs (1908), pp. 100, 105. (the sitter as Anna van Bergen, formerly Isabella of Austria; as by Jan Gossaert, formerly attributed to Scorel)
Ernst Weisz. Jan Gossart gen. Mabuse: sein Leben und seine Werke: Ein monographischer Versuch und Beitrag zur Geschichte der vlämischen Malerei in der ersten Hälfte des XVI. Jahrhunderts (Parchim, 1913), pp. 85-86, 118, pl. 19, no. 55. (the sitter as Anna van Bergen; as a copy by Jan Gossaert after but equal to the Lehman version now housed at the Clark Art Institute, accession no. 1968.297)
Sir Martin Conway. The Van Eycks and their Followers (London, 1921), p. 374. (the sitter as Anna van Bergen; as by Mabuse; the Lehman version as secondary)
Max Julius Friedländer. Van Eyck bis Brueghel: Studien zur Geschichte der niederländischen Malerei (Berlin, 1921), pp. 132-33, 197. (the sitter as Anna van Bergen; as by Jan Gossaert)
Achille Segard. Jean Gossart dit Mabuse (Brussels, 1923), p. 66, no. 23. (the sitter as Anna van Bergen; as by Jan Gossaert)
Morris Carter. Isabella Stewart Gardner and Fenway Court (Boston, 1925; Reprint, Boston, 1972), p. 149. (the sitter as Anna van Bergen; as credibly attributed to Jan Gossaert)
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1925), p. 19. (the sitter as Mary Tudor; as by Jan Gossaert)
Sir William Martin Conway (ed.). Catalogue of the Loan Exhibition of Flemish & Belgian Art. Exh. cat. (London: Burlington House, 1927), p. 82. (the sitter as Anna van Bergen, formerly as Mary Tudor; as a replica of the Lehman version)
Harry G. Sperling. Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Flemish Primitives in Aid of the Free Milk Fund for Babies, Inc. Exh. Cat. (New York: F. Kleinberger Galleries, 1929), p. 218. (as by Jan Gossaert; the Lehman version as a copy of the Gardner version)
Drei Jahrhunderte Vlämische Kunst 1400-1700. Exh. cat. (Vienna: Kunst Historisches Museum Wien, 1930), p. 55. (the sitter as Anna van Bergen; as by Jan Gossaert)
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), pp. 211-13, ill. (the sitter as Anna van Bergen; as by or after Jan Gossaert; as possibly by Scorel; as probably a copy of the Lehman version)
Catalogue of A Centur of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture Lent from American Collections. Exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1933), p. 8. (as a replica of the Lehman version, possibly by Scorel)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 185-86. (the sitter as Anna van Bergen; as by or after Jan Gossaert, formerly attributed to Scorel)
Alfred M. Frankfurter (ed.). The Gardner Collection (New York, 1946), pp. 43, 56, ill. (the sitter as Anna van Bergen; as by or after Jan Gossaert)
“Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 7, no. 13 (24 Nov. 1963), p. 2. (the sitter as Anna van Bergen; as most credibly ascribed to Jan Gossaert, perhaps 1524-1536)
Jean Lanllier et al. Cinq Siecles de Joaillerie (Paris, 1971), p. 53, ill. (the sitter as Anna van Bergen; as by Jan Gossaert)
Max Julius Friedländer et al. Early Netherlandish Painting, vol. 8 (Leiden, 1972), p. 100, no. 76a. (as a replica of the Lehman version "of approximately equal merit")
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 141-42, ill. (the sitter as Anna van Bergen; as after Jan Gossaert, a free contemporary copy of the Lehman version)
Ernest Samuels. Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur (Cambridge, 1979), p. 219. (called a reputed Jan Gossaert)
Guy Bauman. "Early Flemish Portraits 1425-1525." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (Spring 1986), p. 15, fig. 12. (the sitter as Anna van Bergen; as probably a copy after the Lehman version, after about 1525)
Rollin van N. Hadley (ed.). The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner 1887-1924 (Boston, 1987), pp. 60, 670-71. (the sitter as Margaret of Austria; the Lehman version as a copy by Jan Gossaert or Van Orley)
Alexandra R. Murphy et al. Paintings from the Collection of Governor & Mrs. Herbert H. Lehman (Williamstown Connecticut, 1986), no. 6. (as probably a replica of the Lehman version by Jan Gossaert, about 1525)
Maryan Wynn Ainsworth et al. Man, Myth, and Sensual Pleasures: Jan Gossart's Renaissance: the Complete Works (New York, 2010), p. 274. (as a contemporary copy of the Lehman version, about 1526-1530)
Jacob Burckhardt et al. Der Cicerone: eine Anleitung zum Genuss der Kunstwerke Italiens, vol. 2 (Leipzig, 1893), p. 651. (the sitter as Margaret of Austria; as ascribed to Jan Gossaert)
Carl Justi. "Ein Bildnis der Isabella von Österreich, von Mabuse." Zeitschrift für Bildende Kunst, vol. 6 (1895), pp. 161-68, 200-01, ill. (the sitter as Isabella of Austria; as attributed to Jan Gossaert, formerly attributed to Clouet)
Art Exhibition: Mrs. John L. Gardner, 152 Beacon St., Boston. Exh. cat. (Boston, 1899), p. 5, no. 10. (the sitter as a Dutch lady; as by Scorel)
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 14. (the sitter as anonymous woman; as by Scorel)
John La Farge et al (eds.). Noteworthy Paintings in American Private Collections, vol. 1 (New York, 1907), pp. 67-69, 142-43, 227-33, ill. (attributed variously by several contributors: the sitter as not Isabella of Austria, a lady who lived in France from 1515-1530, or Anna van Bergen, Maquise de Veere; as attributed to Scorel, Bernard van Orley, or Jan Gossaert, formerly attributed to Holbein)
Georges H. de Loo. "The Portrait of Jacqueline de Bourgogne, by Mabuse." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs (1908), pp. 100, 105. (the sitter as Anna van Bergen, formerly Isabella of Austria; as by Jan Gossaert, formerly attributed to Scorel)
Ernst Weisz. Jan Gossart gen. Mabuse: sein Leben und seine Werke: Ein monographischer Versuch und Beitrag zur Geschichte der vlämischen Malerei in der ersten Hälfte des XVI. Jahrhunderts (Parchim, 1913), pp. 85-86, 118, pl. 19, no. 55. (the sitter as Anna van Bergen; as a copy by Jan Gossaert after but equal to the Lehman version now housed at the Clark Art Institute, accession no. 1968.297)
Sir Martin Conway. The Van Eycks and their Followers (London, 1921), p. 374. (the sitter as Anna van Bergen; as by Mabuse; the Lehman version as secondary)
Max Julius Friedländer. Van Eyck bis Brueghel: Studien zur Geschichte der niederländischen Malerei (Berlin, 1921), pp. 132-33, 197. (the sitter as Anna van Bergen; as by Jan Gossaert)
Achille Segard. Jean Gossart dit Mabuse (Brussels, 1923), p. 66, no. 23. (the sitter as Anna van Bergen; as by Jan Gossaert)
Morris Carter. Isabella Stewart Gardner and Fenway Court (Boston, 1925; Reprint, Boston, 1972), p. 149. (the sitter as Anna van Bergen; as credibly attributed to Jan Gossaert)
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1925), p. 19. (the sitter as Mary Tudor; as by Jan Gossaert)
Sir William Martin Conway (ed.). Catalogue of the Loan Exhibition of Flemish & Belgian Art. Exh. cat. (London: Burlington House, 1927), p. 82. (the sitter as Anna van Bergen, formerly as Mary Tudor; as a replica of the Lehman version)
Harry G. Sperling. Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Flemish Primitives in Aid of the Free Milk Fund for Babies, Inc. Exh. Cat. (New York: F. Kleinberger Galleries, 1929), p. 218. (as by Jan Gossaert; the Lehman version as a copy of the Gardner version)
Drei Jahrhunderte Vlämische Kunst 1400-1700. Exh. cat. (Vienna: Kunst Historisches Museum Wien, 1930), p. 55. (the sitter as Anna van Bergen; as by Jan Gossaert)
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), pp. 211-13, ill. (the sitter as Anna van Bergen; as by or after Jan Gossaert; as possibly by Scorel; as probably a copy of the Lehman version)
Catalogue of A Centur of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture Lent from American Collections. Exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1933), p. 8. (as a replica of the Lehman version, possibly by Scorel)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 185-86. (the sitter as Anna van Bergen; as by or after Jan Gossaert, formerly attributed to Scorel)
Alfred M. Frankfurter (ed.). The Gardner Collection (New York, 1946), pp. 43, 56, ill. (the sitter as Anna van Bergen; as by or after Jan Gossaert)
“Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 7, no. 13 (24 Nov. 1963), p. 2. (the sitter as Anna van Bergen; as most credibly ascribed to Jan Gossaert, perhaps 1524-1536)
Jean Lanllier et al. Cinq Siecles de Joaillerie (Paris, 1971), p. 53, ill. (the sitter as Anna van Bergen; as by Jan Gossaert)
Max Julius Friedländer et al. Early Netherlandish Painting, vol. 8 (Leiden, 1972), p. 100, no. 76a. (as a replica of the Lehman version "of approximately equal merit")
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 141-42, ill. (the sitter as Anna van Bergen; as after Jan Gossaert, a free contemporary copy of the Lehman version)
Ernest Samuels. Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur (Cambridge, 1979), p. 219. (called a reputed Jan Gossaert)
Guy Bauman. "Early Flemish Portraits 1425-1525." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (Spring 1986), p. 15, fig. 12. (the sitter as Anna van Bergen; as probably a copy after the Lehman version, after about 1525)
Rollin van N. Hadley (ed.). The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner 1887-1924 (Boston, 1987), pp. 60, 670-71. (the sitter as Margaret of Austria; the Lehman version as a copy by Jan Gossaert or Van Orley)
Alexandra R. Murphy et al. Paintings from the Collection of Governor & Mrs. Herbert H. Lehman (Williamstown Connecticut, 1986), no. 6. (as probably a replica of the Lehman version by Jan Gossaert, about 1525)
Maryan Wynn Ainsworth et al. Man, Myth, and Sensual Pleasures: Jan Gossart's Renaissance: the Complete Works (New York, 2010), p. 274. (as a contemporary copy of the Lehman version, about 1526-1530)
ProvenanceNotesAcquired by the merchant Luigi Bonomi, Milan (?).
Bonomi-Cereda collection, Milan by 1885.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner (as a portrait of Margaret of Austria by Jan Scorel) from the Bonomi-Cereda collection, Milan for 3,153 lire on 1 March 1895, through the American art historian Bernard Berenson (1865-1959).
Bonomi-Cereda collection, Milan by 1885.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner (as a portrait of Margaret of Austria by Jan Scorel) from the Bonomi-Cereda collection, Milan for 3,153 lire on 1 March 1895, through the American art historian Bernard Berenson (1865-1959).
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