Christ as the Salvator Mundi
ArtistAttributed to
Quentin Massys [variously spelled Massys, Matsys, Metsijs]
South Netherlandish, b. Leuven 1465/66–d. Antwerp 1530
Datecirca 1500–1510
MediumOil on panel
Dimensionsoverall: 21 × 14 1/2 in. (53.3 × 36.8 cm)
frame: 28 1/8 × 21 3/8 × 3 1/8 in. (71.4 × 54.3 × 7.9 cm)
frame: 28 1/8 × 21 3/8 × 3 1/8 in. (71.4 × 54.3 × 7.9 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Object numberGL.60.17.62
On View
Not on view[1] According to brochure from French and Co.
Published ReferencesJahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien, Bulletin 7 (Vienna: Anton Schroll & Co., 1933).
"Catalogue of Old Pictures... also Ancient and Modern Pictures and Drawings from Other Sources" (auction catalogue) (Christie, Manson and Woods, 1938), lot 75 (as Salvatore Mundi).
The Samuel H. Kress Collection (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1960),126, illus. (color) 127.
"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 4, nos. 2 and 3 (Winter-Spring 1964), listed 58.
Stanley Ferber, "Quentin Massys' 'Salvator Mundi'," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 9, nos. 3-4 (March 1970), 37-41, illus. (b-w) 36.
Colin Eisler, Paintings from the Samuel H. Collection: European Schools; excluding Italian (Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1977), 77-78.
Larry Silver, The Paintings of Quinten Massys with Catalogue Raisonné (Montclair, NJ: Allanheld and Schram, 1984), 72, 195-96, illus. pl. 44.
Jan Bialostocki, The Message of Images (Vienna: IRSA, 1988), 99-100, illus. 100, fig. 91.
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 109.
Dennis Weller, entry for Salvator Mundi, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 75, illus. (color).
Peter van den Brink, De Firma Brueghel (exhibition catalogue) (Maastricht: Ludion; Bonnefantenmuseum, 2001), mentioned 22, illus. (b-w) 25, fig. 19 (catalogue only, not in exhibition).
John Oliver Hand, Joos van Cleve: The Complete Paintings (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004), noted 49, illus. (b-w) 50, fig. 46.
Dennis P. Weller, entry for Salvator Mundi, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 166, illus. (color) 167.
Kiffy Stainer-Hutchins, Simon Watney and Hugo Platt, "A rediscovered prototype by Quinten Metsys: 'Christ blessing with the Virgin in adoration'," The Burlington Magazine 152, no. 1283 (February 2010), 76 note 2.
Susan Urbach, Early Netherlandish Paintings (London: Harvey Miller Publishers, for the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, 2015), Vol. 2, briefly discussed 9, illus. (color) 11, fig. 25.8.
Doron Bauer, "Orb" in Object Fantasies: Experience and Creation (Munich: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, 2018), illus. (color).
Kristen Collins and Nancy K. Turner, ed., Lumen: The Art and Science of Light (800–1600) (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2024) illus (color) 137 (Plate 72).Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Reflections on Light: Works from the NCMA Collection,” September 9, 2020–August 15, 2021.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present.
Los Angeles, CA, J. Paul Getty Museum, "Lumen: The Art and Science of Light," September 10-December 8, 2024. Object Rights Statement
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Northern French painter (Picardy)
circa 1470
Master of the Bologna Polyptychs
circa 1320
