Portable double-sided altarpiece: (front) Saint Jerome and the Pietà Flanked by Four Saints; (back) The Visitation Flanked by Saints Ambrose and Augustine

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Portable double-sided altarpiece: (front) Saint Jerome and the Pietà Flanked by Four Saints; (back) The Visitation Flanked by Saints Ambrose and Augustine

ArtistAttributed to Bartolomé Bermejo Spanish, b. circa 1435/1440, Córdoba (?); d. after 1495, Barcelona (?)

Date1490–1500

MediumOil on panels, wood frame, and traces of gold paint

Dimensions41 x 35 1/2 x 4 in. (104.1 x 90.2 x 10.2 cm)

ClassificationsPaper

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number52.9.169

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ProvenanceE. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York; sold to NCMA, 1952.Published ReferencesExhibition of European and American Masterpieces (exhibition catalogue) (Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 1948), cat. no. 15.

W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 202, illus. (b-w).

Edward J. Sullivan, Catalogue of Spanish Paintings (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1986), cat. no. 1, illus. (b-w) 3, mentioned xii.

Barbara Anderson, "A Late Fifteenth-Century Spanish Pietà from the Circle of Fernando Gallego," The J. Paul Getty Museum: Journal, Vol. 16/1988 Including Acquisitions 1987 (Malibu: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1988), 63, illus.

La pintura gótica hispanoflamenca: Bartolomé Bermejo y su época, Francesc Ruiz i Casada, ed. (exhibition catalogue) (Catalunya: Museo Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, and Bilbao: Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2003), illus. (b-w) 192. (Catalogue only, not in exhibition.)
Exhibition HistoryAtlanta, GA, High Museum, “Exhibition of European and American Masterpieces,” January 4-30, 1948, cat. no. 15.

New Orleans, LA, Delgado Museum, “European Paintings of Five Centuries,” January 8-February 5.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Miracle on Morgan Street: The Foundations of the NCMA, 1946–1960,” September 16, 2020–April 11, 2021.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement

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