Exhibition History Lexington, Va. Washington and Lee University. "The Metropolitan Museum of Art Loan Exhibit," October 30, 1950–January 15, 1951, no. 8 (right wing only).
Athens, Ga. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia. February 15–April 5, 1951, no catalogue? (right wing only).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "From Van Eyck to Bruegel: Early Netherlandish Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 22, 1998–February 21, 1999, no. 14.
Florence. Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina. "Firenze e gli antichi Paesi Bassi 1430–1530, dialoghi tra artisti: da Jan van Eyck a Ghirlandaio, da Memling a Raffaello . . .," June 20–October 26, 2008, no. 28.
References Max J. Friedländer. Letter to Herr Loebl [at Kleinberger & Co.] . December 11, 1923, ascribes these altarwings to the Master of the Saint Ursula Legend, about 1480; notes that a panel apparently from Rogier's hand with the same composition as our right wing, and nearly life-size figures, is probably still with Duveen [now National Gallery, Washington].in The Michael Friedsam Collection . [completed 1928], p. 142, as from the Marchese Ferroni collection, Florence; notes that the composition of the right wing can be traced back to Rogier.Die altniederländische Malerei . 6, Berlin, 1928, p. 137, no. 117, pl. 52.Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 27, section 2 (November 1932), pp. 20, 22.National Gallery Catalogues: Early Netherlandish School . London, 1945, pp. 115–16 n. 2, notes that its design is similar to that of the "Christ Appearing to the Virgin" by a follower of Rogier in the National Gallery, London.La pensée chrétienne dans la peinture flamande et hollandaise . Lille, 1947, vol. 2, pp. 271, 345, no. 649.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Catalogue of Early Flemish, Dutch and German Paintings . New York, 1947, pp. 76–77, ill., suppose that the name of the donor figure was Paul as he is shown here under the protection of Saint Paul the Apostle.Early Netherlandish Painting: Its Origins and Character . Cambridge, Mass., 1953, p. 463 n. 4 (to p. 263), mentions the right wing as an example of copies and variations of Rogier's composition of Christ Appearing to His Mother in the Granada-Miraflores altarpieces (including panel in MMA, 22.60.58).Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts Bulletin 5 (March 1956), p. 4, no. 4.Les primitifs flamands au Musée Metropolitain de New York . Utrecht, 1960, pp. 76, 120–21, attributes them to an anonymous Bruges painter from the end of the 15th century; finds the right wing superior in quality and doubts that the two panels were the work of the same hand.Art Bulletin 46 (March 1964), p. 100, rejects Larsen's excision of these paintings from the oeuvre of the Master of Saint Ursula, noting that the artist "often worked hastily and many of his depictions of donors seem to have been added after the general composition was completed".Jaarboek / Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten (1964), p. 37, no. 28, lists it with works whose attributions are open to discussion.Early Netherlandish Painting . 6, New York, 1971, p. 60, no. 117, pl. 141.Rogier van der Weyden: An Essay, with a Critical Catalogue of Paintings Assigned to Him and to Robert Campin . London, 1972, p. 215.Das altniederländische Stifterbild . Munich, 1976, p. 211, no. 231.Unpublished notes . 1981, notes that Paul was not a common name in the Netherlands and suggests the donor was a member of the Italian community at Bruges; judging from the style of his dress, suggests a date of about 1485.Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 23 (1981), p. 77 n. 126.in John Oliver Hand and Martha Wolff. Early Netherlandish Painting . Washington, 1986, p. 254.Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 62, no. 4 (1987), p. 19 n. 21.Auftragskunst und Sammlerbild: Altniederländische Tafelmalerei im Florenz des Quattrocento . Alfter, Germany, 1994, p. 70, reconstructs an altarpiece with the Virgin and Child Enthroned in the Cherbourg Museum as the central panel, our panels as the interior wings, and two grisaille panels in the Museo Bandini, Fiesole, as the exterior wings; observes that not only do the wings have a Florentine provenance, but the coat of arms in the central panel are also Florentine, and identical with those in a Memling panel with the Virgin and Child Enthroned in the Uffizi, Florence.Burlington Magazine 137 (July 1995), pp. 439–41, ill. (reconstruction view of interior [including our panels] and exterior of triptych), identifies the coats of arms in the Cherbourg panel and in Memling's Virgin and Child in the Uffizi as those of the Pagagnotti family of Florence and notes that Paolo Pagagnotti, "one of many widely-traveled Florentine merchants of the period" was clearly the patron of the triptych to which our interior wings belong; concludes that the Memling triptych was commissioned by his relative Benedetto Pagagnotti.Pantheon 56 (1998), p. 84 n. 36.in From Van Eyck to Bruegel: Early Netherlandish Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art . Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1998, pp. 44, 69, 74, 122–24, 178, no. 14, ill. (color), places it in the late 1480s and identifies the panels as Saint Paul with Paolo Pagagnotti and Christ Appearing to His Mother.Rogier van der Weyden: The Complete Works . New York, 1999, p. 232.Italy and the Low Countries—Artistic Relations: The Fifteenth Century . Florence, 1999, pp. 46–47.From Flanders to Florence: The Impact of Netherlandish Painting, 1400–1500 . New Haven, 2004, pp. 75, 273 n. 80.in Firenze e gli antichi Paesi Bassi 1430–1530, dialoghi tra artisti: da Jan van Eyck a Ghirlandaio, da Memling a Raffaello . . . Exh. cat., Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence. Livorno, 2008, pp. 18, 25, 142, 150–53, no. 28, ill. (color).
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