Pieter Claeissens I
The Mass of Saint Gregory

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Artist Pieter Claeissens I (Netherlandish, c. 1499–1576)Netherlandish, 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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Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation

Object Type

PAINTING

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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