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The ''Donne Triptych'' (or ''Donne Altarpiece'') is a hinged- triptych altarpiece by the Early Netherlandish painter Hans Memling. It consists of five individual panel paintings: a central inner panel, and two double-sided wings. It was painted for the soldier, courtier and diplomat Sir John Donne, probably sometime between the late 1470s or early 1480s, and contains portraits of Donne, his wife and daughter. It is kept in the collection of the National Gallery, London, with the panels still in their original frames.
When Donne commissioned the work is unknown. Art historians have debated whether it was painted in the early 1480s, around the same time Memling painted '' Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara'', in New York at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. An earlier date of sometime in the late 1470s is possible, at the time he completed the similar ''
Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved May 30, 2014.''Donne Triptych''
. National Gallery. Retrieved May 30, 2014Blum, 92 The donor, Sir John Donne of Kidwelly, was a Picardy-born Welsh diplomat for the
The ''Donne Triptych'' (or ''Donne Altarpiece'') is a hinged- triptych altarpiece by the Early Netherlandish painter Hans Memling. It consists of five individual panel paintings: a central inner panel, and two double-sided wings. It was painted for the soldier, courtier and diplomat Sir John Donne, probably sometime between the late 1470s or early 1480s, and contains portraits of Donne, his wife and daughter. It is kept in the collection of the National Gallery, London, with the panels still in their original frames.
When Donne commissioned the work is unknown. Art historians have debated whether it was painted in the early 1480s, around the same time Memling painted '' Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara'', in New York at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. An earlier date of sometime in the late 1470s is possible, at the time he completed the similar ''St John Altarpiece
The ''St John Altarpiece'' (German - ''Johannesaltar'', ''Johannestafel'' or ''Johannesretabel'') is a c. 1455 oil-on-oak wood panel altarpiece by the Early Netherlandish painter Rogier van der Weyden, now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. The t ...
'', or it may have been painted as a precursor to that altarpiece."Virgin and Child with Saints"Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved May 30, 2014.''Donne Triptych''
. National Gallery. Retrieved May 30, 2014Blum, 92 The donor, Sir John Donne of Kidwelly, was a Picardy-born Welsh diplomat for the
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who visited Bruges at least once, in 1468 to attend Charles the Bold and Margaret of York's wedding; how he became acquainted with Memling is as uncertain as when he commissioned the triptych.Bruce, 79
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* Bauman, Guy. "Early Flemish Portraits 1425-1525". ''The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin'', New Series, volume 43, no. 4, 1986. * Blum, Shirley Neilson. ''Early Netherlandish Triptychs: A Study in Patronage''. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969 * Bruce, Donald. ''Contemporary Review''. Aug 94, Vol. 265 Issue 1543, p. 72. {{Authority control 1470s paintings 1480s paintings Paintings by Hans Memling Triptychs Paintings of the Madonna and Child Paintings of Saint Barbara Paintings depicting John the Baptist Sheep in art Birds in art Angels in art