The Pentecost

ArtistFollower of Bernard van Orley Flemish, circa 1492–1542

Datecirca 1530

MediumOil on panel

Dimensions37 1/2 x 43 3/4 in. (95.3 x 111.1 cm)
Frame: 47 x 53 1/4 x 3 1/4 in. (119.4 x 135.3 x 8.3 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number52.9.90

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ProvenanceCreated Flanders [present day Belgium], ca. 1530. Sold to NCMA, 1952.Published ReferencesW. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), cat. no. 125.

Yvette Bruijnen, "The Master of Saint Michael: a newly established group of paintings by an artist in the orbit of Bernard van Orley," Oud Holland 115, no. 2 (2001/2002), discussed 101-104, illus. (b-w) 101 (as by Master of Saint Michael).

Alexandre Galand, The Flemish Primitives VI: The Bernard van Orley Group, Catalogue of Early Netherlandish Painting in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2013), 341, 345, illus. (color) 347, fig. 307.

“Actual State,” in North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Winter 2016 Calendar), illus. (color), unpaginated.

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