Pieter Claeissens I
The Mass of Saint Gregory

ArtistNetherlandish, c. 1499–1576
CultureNetherlandish
Titles
  • The Mass of Saint Gregory
  • The Mass of Saint Gregory
Datec. 1530
PlaceNorthern Europe
MediumOil on panel
DimensionsPanel: 26 × 30 5/8 in. (66 × 77.8 cm)
Frame (outer): 33 3/8 × 37 7/8 × 3 1/4 in. (84.8 × 96.2 × 8.3 cm)
Credit LineSarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston
Object numberBF.1979.107
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
215 Blaffer Galleries
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ProvenanceBaron Carl von Aretin, Heidelberg Castle, Germany; [Carl von Aretin sale, Mauer, Munich, November 15, 1887, lot 100]; Johann Nepomuk Sepp, Professor in Religious History, Munich (1816–1919); [Hugo Helbing, Munich, March 8, 1911, lot 92]; [Weismüller, Munich, June 1, 1949, lot 582]; [Lempertz, Cologne, November 19, 1954, lot 33]; [Spencer A. Samuels & Company, New York]; purchased by Sarah Campbell Blaffer, who gave it to the University of Houston, 1963; purchased by the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, 1979.
Exhibition History"Blood: Power, Politics and Pathology," Museum fuer Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany, November 11, 2001–January 27, 2002.

"Sacred Art from the Old and New Worlds," Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, June 2–September 15, 2002.

"Pieter Pourbus and the Claeissens Family: The Bruges painting world in the second half of the sixteenth century," Groeninge Museum, Bruges, Belgium, October 12, 2017–January 21, 2018.

"Hidden Layers: Painting and Process in Europe, 1500–1800," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, May 26–September 3, 2018.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed lower right: OPUS PETRI NICOLAI/MORAVLI BRVGIS IN/FLANDRIA IN PLATEA/Q DICIT DE OVDE SACK

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