Master of the Agilolphus Altar

The Church of Santa Maria ad Gradus, Cologne, by circa 1520–21, and subsequently separated from the altar between about 1803–1817;

Fürstlich Hohenzollernsche Sammlungen, Sigmaringen, by 1874 (inv. no. 4877, as Lower Rhenish School, early 16th century);

Ludovic de Spiridon collection, Rome;

By whom sold, Amsterdam, Frederik Muller, 19 June 1928, lot 47 (as Michael Pacher);

Where acquired by Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam, (inv. no. 2092) until July 1940 when Aryanised by Reichsmarschall Herman Göring;

In the custody of the Dutch Government (NK 2610), 5 May 1945;

Restituted to the heir of Jacques Goudstikker and Kunsthandel Jacques Goudstikker NV., 6 February 2006.

F.A. Lehner, Fürstlich Hohenzollernsches Museum zu Sigmaringen, Sigmaringen 1874, p. 39, cat. no. 128, and subsequently included in the revised 1883 edition (as Lower Rhein, early sixteenth century);

M.J. Friedländer, Die Altniederländische Malerei, vol. XI, Leiden 1934, p. 43;

M. Stechow, "An Antwerp Altarpiece for Cologne Reconstructed," in Art in America 30, no. 1 (January 1942), pp. 5–17, reproduced fig. 3;

I. Hiller, H. Vey and T. Falk, Katalog der deutschen und niederländischen Gemälde bis 1550 (mit Ausnahme der Kölner Malerei) im Wallraf-Richartz-Museum und im Kunstgewerbemuseum der Stadt Köln, Cologne 1969, pp. 71–72;

M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish painting, vol. XI, Leiden 1974, p. 28, reproduced pl. 35 (as Antwerp Mannerist);

B. Schwanecke, “Der Agilolfusaltar im Kölner Dom: Aufbau, Würdigung and Restaurierunsgsbericht,” in Kölner Domblatt 43 (1978), pp. 37-50 (includes a description of the carved elements of the original altarpiece);

Old master paintings. An illustrated summary catalogue, Zwolle-The Hague 1992, p. 395, cat. no. 3532, reproduced (as Southern Netherlandish school, circa 1520);

B. Lambert, "St. Maria ad gradus," in Colonia Romanica 11 (1996), pp. 61–75 (including a full drawing of the altarpiece);

W. Hansmann and G. Hoffman, Spätgotik am Niederrhein: Rheinische und Flämische Flügelältare im Licht neuer Forschung, Cologne 1998, p. 269 note 291;

N.H. Yeide, Beyond the Dreams of Avarice, The Hermann Goering Collection, Dallas 2009, p. 67, cat. no. A328 (as Michael Pacher);

R. Krischel, "Antwerpen in Köln. Das Altarbild der Kreuzbrüder," in: Ein vergessenes Meisterwerk. Das Antwerpener Altarbild der Kölner Kreuzbrüder, exhibition catalogue, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Cologne 2016, pp. 8-87, especially pp. 64-68 (includes a detailed commentary on the Agilolphus altarpiece and discusses the altarpiece as a possible reaction to the Cologne Brothers of the Cross Antwerp altarpiece).

Amsterdam, Galerie Goudstikker, Catalogue des Nouvelles Acquisitions de la Collection Goudstikker, October - November 1928, no. 26;

Venlo, Limburgs Museum, long-term loan from the Instituut Collectie Nederland, Amsterdam, dates unknown.