Saint George and the Dragon

Hugo van der Goes

Artist, Netherlandish, c. 1440 - 1482

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    Overall (approximate): 20 x 16.6 cm (7 7/8 x 6 9/16 in.)
    support: 20.6 x 16.6 cm (8 1/8 x 6 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1950.20.3

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Prof. Dr. F. Heimsoeth, Bonn (sale, Prestel, Frankfurt-am-Main, 5 May 1879, no. 99); Alexander Emil Posonyi [1839-1899] (Lugt 159), Vienna; Adalbert Freiherr von Lanna [1836-1909] (Lugt 2773), Prague; (sale, H. G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart, 6 May 1910, no. 33, as "Anonymous Netherlandish Master of the 15th century," reproduced). Princes of Liechtenstein, Vienna (Lugt 4398); purchased 20 April 1948 through (Walter Felichenfeldt, Zurich) by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA;[1] gift to NGA in 1950.
[1] Rosenwald describes the acquisitions from Liechtenstein in Recollections of a Collector, 1976, p. 46-47.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1950

  • Rosenwald Collection. An Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions. Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1950, no. 25, repro.

  • Masterpieces of Drawing: Diamond Jubilee Exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1950-1951, no. 15, repro.

1960

  • Masterpieces of Flemish Art: Van Eyck to Bosch, The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1960, 216-217, no. 60 (cat. titled "Flanders in the Fifteenth Century: Art and Civilization")

1961

  • Masterpieces: A Memorial Exhibition for Adele R. Levy, Wildenstein & Co., New York, 1961, no. 57, repro.

1962

  • Drawings from the National Gallery of Art Collections, NGA, 1962 (on view for first month of exhibition).

1966

  • Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1966.

2002

  • Early Netherlandish Drawings from Jan van Eyck to Hieronymus Bosch, Rubenshuis, Antwerp, 2002, no. 34, as Follower of Hugo van der Goes, ca. 1500.

Bibliography

1899

  • Kaemmerer, Ludwig. Memling. (Künstler-Monographien, ed. H. Knackfuss, vol. 39). Bielefeld/Leipzig, 1899, 130, note, reprod. 106, abb. 104.

1908

  • Schönbrunner, Josef and Josef Meder. Handzeichnungen alter Meister aus der Albertina und anderen Sammlungen. Vol. 12, Vienna, 1908: pl. 1390 (as Unknown Master).

1909

  • Voll, Karl. Memling, Des Meisters Gemälde in 197 Abbildungen. Stuttgart/Leipzig, 1909, reprod. p. XXVII.

1921

  • Conway, Martin. The Van Eycks and Their Followers. London, 1921, 245.

1924

  • Friedländer, Max J. Die Altniederländische Malerei. 14 vols., Berlin, 1924-1937. Berlin, 1926: 4:62-63, pl. 77 (as Van der Goes?). Republished in Leiden, 1934.

1927

  • Demonts, Louis. "L'Exposition d'Art flamand à la Royal Academy de Londres," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 5th series, XV, May 1927, 277.

1930

  • Adler, Irene. "Hugo van de Goes. Kneeling Figure of St. Luke,"Old Master Drawings, V, no. 19, December, 1930, 54.

1938

  • Oettinger, Karl, "Das Rätsel der Kunst des Hugo van der Goes," Jahrbuch der kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien, N.S. XII, 1938: 60, note 13.

1951

  • Boon, Karel G. "Naar aanleiding van tekeningen van Hugo van der Goes en zijn school." Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, 1950/1951, 93-94.

1953

  • Panofsky, Erwin. Early Netherlandish Painting. Its Origins and Character. Cambridge, Mass., 1953 (reprinted in 1958): 1:500, note 3.

1964

  • Winkler, Friedrich. Das Werk des Hugo van der Goes. Berlin, 1964, 229,277, reprod. 230, fig. 184.

1967

  • Friedländer, Max J. Early Netherlandish Painting. 14 vols. in 16. Brussels and Leiden, 1967-1976: 4(1969):37-38, 103, note 5, pl. 102-B (translation with comments of the 1926 edition).

1984

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 658, no. 1035, color repro.

1998

  • Dhanens, Elisabeth. Hugo van der Goes. Antwerp, 1998, 378, nn. 166, 170.

2001

  • Panofsky, Erwin. Die altniederländische Malerei, Ihr Ursprung und Wesen. Translated by Jochen Sander and Stephan Kemperdick. Cologne, 2001: xxx, note 154.

2011

  • Weniger, Matthias. Sittow, Morros, Juan de Flandes: Drei Maler aus dem Norden am Hof Isabellas der Katholischen. Kiel, 2011: no. N94 (as circle of Memling).

2023

  • Kemperdick, Stephan and Erik Eising, eds. Hugo van der Goes: Zwischen Schmerz und Seligkeit. Munich, 2023: 252-253, no. 35

Inscriptions

in later hand, lower left: Mr. Rogzer.; lower right verso: (Prestel, frankf a/m) / Vente Heimsoeth. / Cat. No.99. / 5mai 1879

Wikidata ID

Q64536848

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