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| Keywords: Netherlandish - Two Panels depicting the Annunciation, Baptism of Christ and Crucifixion from the Antwerp-Baltimore Quadriptych - Walters 371683.jpg This extremely important masterpiece is one of the earliest paintings of the Netherlandish school The style suggests that the artist came from Guelders in the northern Netherlands as did the famous Limbourg brothers who settled in Paris The overall theme of the six scenes--Annunciation Nativity Crucifixion Resurrection Baptism Saint Christopher--is the divinity of Christ and the certainty of salvation It is one of the earliest works where we find evidence of oil paint a medium that through its translucency helps to bring out the richness and vibrancy of details from nature such as the fish swimming in the Jordan River The realism for which 15th-century Northern European painting is known is evident in the close attention paid to describing nature with such detail This Baptism scene is an outer wing of a small folding altarpiece of which one half including the Annunciation and Calvary belongs to the Walters and the other the Nativity Resurrection Saint Christopher to the Museum Meyer van den Bergh Antwerp The altarpiece can be traced back to the Carthusian monastery of Champmol near Dijon France founded by Philip the Bold 1342-1404 Duke of Burgundy and surely was made for Philip to take on his travels ca 1400 Late Medieval oil and tempera with gold leaf on panel cm 37 2 26 5 2 accession number 37 1683 25676 The Chartreuse de Champmol until 1772-1774 Louis XV King of France Paris and Versailles date of acquisition unknown by purchase Cardinal Charles Antoine de la Roche-Aymon Château de Champigny-les-Vitraux date of acquisition unknown by purchase Charles Guillaume de la Roche-Aymon d 1851 date of acquisition unknown by inheritance Cuvillier Niort Deux Sèvres prior to 1904 by purchase Arnold Seligmann Rey and Co Paris date of acquisition unknown by purchase Henry Walters New York 1919 by purchase Sadie Jones Mrs Henry Walters New York 1931 by inheritence Sale New York 1939 Walters Art Museum 1939 by purchase Museum purchase formerly part of the Walters Collection 1939 The International Style The Arts in Europe Around 1400 The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1962 The Art of Devotion in the Late Middle Ages in Europe 1300-1500 Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Amsterdam 1994-1995 Van Eyck's Annunciation The Meeting of Heaven and Earth The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago 1997 Highlights from the Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1998-2001 Art from the Court of Burgundy 1364-1419 Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon Dijon; The Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland 2004-2005 place of origin Dijon France Walters Art Museum license 2D Renaissance paintings in the Walters Art Museum Art of the Netherlands Paintings in the Walters Art Museum | ||||
