The Presentation in the Temple

Master of the Prado "Adoration of the Magi"c. 1470/1480

Details

Title: The Presentation in the Temple
Creator: Master of the Prado "Adoration of the Magi"
Date Created: c. 1470/1480
Physical Dimensions: painted surface: 57.9 x 47.8 cm (22 13/16 x 18 13/16 in.) overall (panel): 59 x 48.1 cm (23 1/4 x 18 15/16 in.)
Provenance: Count Johann Rudolph Czernin von Chudenitz [1757-1845], Vienna, by 1823;[1] by inheritance through the family of the counts Czernin, Vienna; Count Eugen Czernin von Chudenitz [1892-1955], Vienna, until about 1954. (Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York), by 1954; purchased 1955 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1961 to NGA. [1] Franz Heinrich Böckh, _Merkwürdigkeiten der Haupt- und Residenz-Stadt Wien und ihrer nächsten Umgebungen; ein Handbuch für Einheimische und Fremde_, 2 vols., Vienna, 1823: I:294-295. Colin Eisler, in _Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian_, Oxford, 1977: 59-60, states that Czernin probably purchased the painting from Edward Solly; the basis for this statement is not given, however. [2] A letter dated 8 February 1955 from Wildenstein & Co. to the Kress Foundation outlines the agreement for the sale of two paintings and a bronze figure (see copies in NGA curatorial files and The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/2271). One of the paintings was _Presentation in the Temple_ "by Memling."
Medium: oil on panel

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