Triptych with the Last Supper and Donors, Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen (circle of), c. 1525 - c. 1530

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Triptych with the Last Supper and Donors, Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen (circle of), c. 1525 - c. 1530

oil on glass, h 45cm × w 39cm Catalogue entry

This triptych is the earliest known and best-preserved verre églomisé painting (a type of reverse painting on glass) from the northern Netherlands. It is still in its original frame. The donors depicted on the wings are Adriana van Rhoon (c. 1450-1527) and Dirck Pietersz Spangert (c. 1465-1549); she was the abbess and he the chaplain and jurist of Leeuwenhorst Abbey in Noordwijkerhout.

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Identification

Title(s)

Triptych with the Last Supper and Donors
Triptych with the Last Supper (centre panel), Adriana van Roon (c. 1450-1527) with St James the Greater (inner left wing), Dirk Pietersz Spangert (c. 1465-1549) with St Mary Magdalen (inner right wing), the coats of arms of Adriana van Roon (outer left wing) and the Spangert house mark (outer right wing)

Object type

painting
reverse painting on glass

Object number

SK-A-4294

Inscriptions / marks

coat of arms, left wing, right on the prie-dieu, on the outer left wing: ‘divided vertically, 1, on a silver field a horizontal red bar charged with a gold demi-lion flanked by 15 oblong green blocks, five over four above the bar and three over two over one below the bar; 2, one half and four whole triangular gold pieces on a red field’, a black house mark on a silver field
coat of arms, inner right wing, lower left, on the prie-dieu: ‘a black house mark on a silver field’

Description

Drieluik met op het middenpaneel het laatste avondmaal. Judas heeft woedend zijn stoel omgegooid, vooraan kauwt een hond op een been. Op de linker zijpaneel de geknielde vrouwelijke stichter Adriana van Roon (ca. 1450-1527) met de heilige Jacobus. Op het rechter zijpaneel de mannelijke stichter Dirk Pietersz. Spangert (ca. 1465-1549) met heilige Maria Magdalena. Op de buitenzijde van de zijpanelen staan de familiewapens van de stichters.

Creation

Artist

painter: Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen (circle of)

Place

Amsterdam (possibly)

Dating

c. 1525 - c. 1530

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on glass

Material

glass
oil paint (paint)
gold leaf

Technique

gilding

Measurements

support: height 45 cm (centre panel) × width 39 cm (centre panel) × height 45 cm (left wing) × width 20 cm (left wing) × height 45 cm (right wing) × width 18.7 cm (right wing)

Subject

What

Last Supper (in general) (Matthew 26:21-35; Mark 14:18-31; Luke 22:3, 22:15-23; John 13:21-38) (+ donor(s), supplicant(s), whether or not with patron saint(s))
dog
the apostle James the Great; possible attributes: book, pilgrim's cloak, hat, shell, staff, and wallet, scroll, sword
the penitent harlot Mary Magdalene; possible attributes: book (or scroll), crown, crown of thorns, crucifix, jar of ointment, mirror, musical instrument, palm-branch, rosary, scourge
kneeling on both knees

Who

Adriana van Roon
Dirk Pietersz. Spangert

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

purchase 1893

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

? Commissioned by Adriana van Roon and Dirk Spangert, for the Leeuwenhorst Convent, Noordwijkerhout;{De Moor 1981, pp. 63-78.} ...; sale, Adriaan van der Willigen (1766-1841, Haarlem) and his nephew, Dr Adriaan van der Willigen Pz (1810-76, Haarlem), sold on the premises (A.G. de Visser), 20 (21) April 1874 sqq., no. 134, as Anonymous, probably Haarlem, early 16th century (‘Triptyque, composée de trois vitraux, polychromes, rehaussés d’or, par un maître anonyme hollandaise, probablement de Harlem du commencement du 16e siécle [...]. Au bas de sa droite, il y a un écusson, avec les armoiries de la famille Oem van Wyngaarden. Sur l’extérieur des portes en bois, sont peintes à l’huile, les mêmes armoiries de l’intérieur’.), fl. 1,200 (after sale), to the dealer J.I. Boas Berg, Amsterdam;{Copy RKD; copy RMA.} ....; sale, Frédéric Spitzer (1815-90, Paris), Paris (P. Chevallier), 17 April 1893 sqq., no. 2116, as German, frs. 5,700, to the museum;{Copy RMA.}.

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

Nederlandse kunst in het Rijksmuseum 1400-1600, Reinier J. Baarsen, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, Ger Luijten, Hendrik Willem van Os, Frits Scholten, afb. 19
The luminous image : painted glass roundels in the Lowlands, 1480-1560, Timothy B. Husband, Ellen Konowitz, Zsuzsanna van Ruyven-Zeman, Ilja M. Veldman, p. 102, fig. 8
All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam : a completely illustrated catalogue : first supplement: 1976-91, p. 48
Kunst voor de beeldenstorm : Noordnederlandse kunst 1525-1580 [ : 1 1986b], Willy C. Halsema-Kubes, Willy Halsema-Kubes, Wouter Theodoor Kloek
All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam : a completely illustrated catalogue, p. 177
La collection Spitzer : antiquité, moyen-âge, renaissance, Henry D'Allemagne, Wilhelm von Bode, Edmond Bonnaffé, Alfred Darcel, Léopold Delisle, A. Ernst, Louis de Farcy, M. Froehner, Edouard Garnier, J.B. Giraud, Gaston Le Breton, J. Mannheim, Émile Molinier, Eugène Muentz, Arthur Pabst, Léon Palustre, Claudius Popelin, cat.nr. 34
Adriana van Roon (ca. 1450-1527) en Dirk Pietersz. Spangert (ca. 1465-1549), schenkers van het drieluikje met 'Het Laatste Avondmaal', toegeschreven aan Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen, Geertruida de Moor
De vroege Nederlandse schilderkunst in het Rijksmuseum

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