The Pentecost

ArtistWorkshop of Ambrosius Benson Italian and South Netherlandish, b. circa 1495, Lombardy, possibly Milan; d. 1550, Bruges

Dateafter 1552

MediumOil on panel

Dimensions36 1/8 x 31 5/16 in. (91.8 x 79.5 cm)
Frame: 39 3/4 x 35 x 2 in. (101 x 88.9 x 5.1 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Linsky

Object numberG.52.11.1

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ProvenanceProbably created Bruges, present-day Belgium, after 1552. Oscar Bondy (1870–1944), Vienna and New York; to his wife Mrs. Elizabeth A. Bondy, New York [1], 1944–1949; [estate sale, Kende Galleries, New York, March 3, 1949, no. 71, as Ambrosius Benson, Pentecost: The Madonna and the Twelve Apostles (Whitsuntide)]; Jack (1897–1980) and Belle (1904–1987) Linsky, New York, 1949–1952; given to NCMA, 1952.

[1] The 1949 Kende Galleries catalogue states on the title page that the sale of works from Oscar Bondy's estate was done by the order of Elizabeth A. Bondy.Published References"The Renowned Painting Collection of the Late Oscar Bondy," (auction catalogue) (New York: Kende Galleries Inc., March 3, 1949), lot 71, as Ambrosius Benson, Pentecost: The Madonna and the Twelve Apostles (Whitsuntide), illus. (b-w).

W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 109, illus. (b-w).

Betty Chamberlain, "North Carolina: First state-initiated collection: How to get and spend a million dollars for art," Art News 55, no. 2 (April 1956), 38, illus.

Georges Marlier, Ambrosius Benson et la Peinture a Bruges au Temps de Charles-Quint (Damme, 1957), 205-06, no. 48, pl. 52.

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed. Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 130.

Didier Martens and Hélène Mund, "Autour de la ‹Pentecôte Rapaert› du Maître des Portraits Baroncelli: Modèles et Traditions dans la Peinture Brugeoise à l'Aube des Temps Modernes," Jahrbuch Berliner Museen 45 (2003), 33–37, illus. (b-w) fig. 35, as Pieter Claeissens the Elder.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Kende Galleries, Inc., “The Renowned Painting Collection of the late Oscar Bondy,” March 3, 1949, cat. no. 71.
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