Object Name
Artist/Maker
Object Type
Date
1500-1525
Medium
boxwood
Credit Line
Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, Benson Ford Fund and Henry Ford II Fund
Object Number
79.177
Location
AGO, Gallery 137 Margaret Eaton Gallery
Institution/Owner
External Link
Dimensions
Overall Open: 229.1mm × 85.6mm × 40.8mm × 132.8mm × 69.8mm (22.9 × 8.6 × 4.1 × 13.3 × 7 cm)
Description
Triptych: Upper: Nativity with Annunciation to the Shepherds in the background (centre), Annunciation (left wing), Presentation in the Temple (right wing); lower: Adoration of the Magi (centre), domestic interior with dog (left wing); domestic interior with vase of flowers (right wing)
Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings
Inscription
Carved Latin inscriptions:
ET TV BETHLE [under image on left wing]
TERRA IV NEQUAQUA MIN [under central image]
ISAIAS [on right prophet's scroll in Annunciation to Shepherds in background of central scene]
ES I PRINCIPIBS [under image on right wing] [source: Matthew 2:6]
[source: Wixom 1983]
ET TV BETHLE [under image on left wing]
TERRA IV NEQUAQUA MIN [under central image]
ISAIAS [on right prophet's scroll in Annunciation to Shepherds in background of central scene]
ES I PRINCIPIBS [under image on right wing] [source: Matthew 2:6]
[source: Wixom 1983]
Published References
William D. Wixom, A Brabantine Boxwood Triptych (Detroit: Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, 61, 1983, pp 38-45)
Catalogue Raisonné
Romanelli 6
Provenance
Provenance
Nicolas Landau, Paris; Ernest Brummer, Zurich; Brummer sale October 1979, Zurich, lot 136
Previous Owner(s)
Nicolas Landau
Ernest Brummer