Triptych for Jean III de La Tour de Boulogne, Comte d’Auvergne, and Jeanne de Bourbon-Vendȏme, Comtesse de Boulogne et d’Auvergne

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Triptych for Jean III de La Tour de Boulogne, Comte d’Auvergne, and Jeanne de Bourbon-Vendȏme, Comtesse de Boulogne et d’Auvergne

Artist Master of the La Tour d'Auvergne Triptych French or Netherlandish, active circa 1480–1500

Date1495–1498

MediumTempera and oil on panel

DimensionsOverall: 26 11/16 x 38 5/8 in. (67.8 x 98.1 cm)
Center panel (including original engaged frame):
26 11/16 x 19 3/8 in. (67.8 x 49.3 cm.)
Left panel: 26 5/8 x 9 1/2 in. (67.6 x 24.2 cm.)
Right panel: 26 5/8 x 9 5/8 in. (67.6 x 24.5 cm.)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Object numberGL.60.17.61

On View

On view

ProvenanceJean and Jeanne de la Tour, Vic-le Comte, ca. 1498; bequeathed by Jeanne de la Tour (d.1512) to the Cordeliers (Franciscans?) de Vic-le-Comte, ca. 1512; presented by Cordeliers to Emmanuel Theodosius de La Tour d'Auvergne, Cardinal de Bouillon, Grand Almoner of France, July 27, 1703; unknown sale (Paris), 1872-74; Prince de Latour d'Auvergne; Princesse de La Tour d'Auvergne, 1909; M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York; Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1957; given to NCMA, 1960.
Published ReferencesEtienne Baluze, Histoire Genealogique de la Maison d'Auvergne (Paris, 1709), 351.

Raymond Fournier-Sarloveze, "Quelques primitifs du centre de la France," Revue de l'art ancien et moderne 25 (1909), 180-91, illus. 184-91.

Charles Sterling, La peinture francaise: Les primitifs (Paris, 1938), 124, no. 120.

Charles Sterling, La peinture francaise: les peintres du moyen age (Paris, 1942), 23.

"Kress Collection," North Carolina Museum of Art Calendar of Art Events 2,no. 9 (June-July 1959), illus. (b-w) unnumbered page.

The Samuel H. Kress Collection (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1960), 124 (as French School, late XV century), illus. (b-w) 125.

Thomas B. Hess, "Culture as the Great American Dream," Art News (December 1961), 36, illus.

Paul Wescher, "Die Kress-Stiftung für Raleigh," Pantheon 21 (1963), 12-16.

Durham Morning Herald (November 28, 1965), 1, illus.

Charles Sterling, "Pour la peinture en Auvergne au Xve siecle," L'Oeil, no. 136 (1966), 4-17.

Herbert Friedman, "A Fifteenth Century French Triptych in the North Carolina Museum of Art," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 6, nos. 2 and 3 (Winter-Spring 1966), 3-15, illus. (b-w) 2 and front cover, details (b-w) 4-15.

Colin Eisler, Painting from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools excluding Italian (Oxford, 1977), 249-51, illus. figs. 59-60, pl. 234.

Antique Collector (April 1983), 40, illus.

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 143.

Margaret Scott, A Visual History of Costume: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries (London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1986), illus. 132, plates 144, 145.

Aileen Ribeiro and Valerie Cumming, The Visual History of Costume (London: B.T. Batsford, Ltd., 1989), 11, 72, illus. 72, fig. 29.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (color) 123.

Anne Courtillé, Histoire de la peinture murale dans l'Auvergne du Moyen-Age (Watel: Brioude, 1983).

Yves Morvan, "La Maison de l'éléphant à Montferrand," Bulletin historique et scientifique de l'Auvergne 92, no. 683 (1984).

Georges de Bussac, "Le repos pendant la fuite en Egypte," Bulletin historique et scientifique de l'Auvergne 86 (1973).

Georges de Bussac, "Un triptyque auvergnat de la fin du XV siecle: 'L'Annonciation et les donateurs, Jean et Jeanne de Latour d'Auvergne," Bulletin historique et scientifique de l'Auvergne 96, no. 716 (Janvier-Mars, 1993), 283-96, illus. (color).

Jean-François Luneau, "Les vitraux de la Sainte-Chapelle de Vic-le Comte: un programme typologique original," Revue de L'Art: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

"Interactive Computer Program to Enhance Exhibition." North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Summer 1995), 15-16, illus. (b-w) 15.

Chuck Twardy, "A Picture Tells its Story," Raleigh: The News and Observer (August 25, 1995), "What's Up" insert, illus. 21.

Joseph Covington, "The Story of a Picture." North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Winter 1995-96), 6-9, illus. (b-w) 6.

Joseph P. Covington, entry for The Annunciation with Saints and Donors, called The Latour d'Auvergne Triptych, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 69, 72-74, illus. (color) 72, details (color) 73-74.

V. Héraud, "Au Bas Moyen Âge (XI - XV Siècle): grandeur de la majesté Auvergnate, victoire de la vierge-de-tendresse Parisienne," In Marie en Basse-Auvergne: deux mille ans d'images et d'imaginaire (exhibition catalogue) (Clermont-Ferrand: G. de Bussac, 1998), 47-48, illus. (color) 48 (color detail) 78.

Michelle Natale, "Take a seasonal respite in beauty," Raleigh: The News and Observer, "What's Up" insert (December 14, 2007), mentioned 17.

Joseph P. Covington and Dennis P. Weller, entry for The Annunciation with Saints and Donors, called The Latour d'Auvergne Triptych, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 162-163, illus. (color) 165, detail (color) 164.

France 1500: Entre moyen - Âge et Renaissance (exhibition catalogue) (Paris: Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 2010), cat. no. 77, illus. (color) 185. [Chicago version] Kings, Queens, and Courtiers: Art in Early Renaissance France (New Haven and London: Yale University Press for the Art Institute of Chicago, 2010), cat. no. 69, illus. (color) 138.

Stefano de Bosio, "Maestri vetrai nei cantieri di Giorgio de Challant e nella cattedrale di Aosta," in Georges de Challant: Priore Illuminato (Aosta: Regione Autonoma Valle d'Aosta, 2011), illus. (color) 205, fig. 12.

William Elliott, “La Nativité de Benedetto Ghirlandaio et les rivalités dynastiques d’Auvergne,” in Sparsae no. 74 (August 2014), illus. (color) 27, fig. 8.

Rachelle Garbarine, “Pictures of Faith,” NCCatholics (December 2015), illus. (color) 18–19.

Exhibition HistoryWashington, DC, National Gallery of Art, “Art Treasures for America from the Samuel H. Kress Collection,” December 10, 1961-February 4, 1962, cat. no. 30 (as French School, late XV century).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Mary Duke Biddle Education Gallery, “The Story of a Picture,” August 26, 1995-July 21, 1996.

Paris, France, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, "France 1500: Entre moyen-Âge et Renaissance," October 4, 2010-January 11, 2011; Chicago, IL, Art Institute of Chicago, February 26-May 29, 2011, cat. No. 77, illus (color); [Chicago catalogue]: cat. no. 69, illus. (color), 138.

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

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