Cornelia Cnoop

Cornelia Cnoop
Portrait of Cornelia as donor in Virgin among the Virgins (Virgo inter Virgines) (1509), by her husband Gerard David.
Born1450
NationalityNetherlandish

Cornelia Cnoop or Cnopp (born 1450) was a Netherlandish miniature painter. A painting attributed to her hand was exhibited in 1902 in Bruges during the Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges, in the Provinciaal Hof as catalog number 130.[1]

She was married to the painter and manuscript illuminator Gerard David.[2]

She was born in Bruges as the daughter of the goldsmith Jacob Cnoop de Jongere and Kathelijne uter Vorst.[3] Her father was a dean of the goldsmiths' guild.[4] She married Gerard David in 1497.[5] They had a daughter Barbara.[3] In 1509 her husband donated a Virgo inter Virgines to the church of the Carmelites, that included a self-portrait on the left and a portrait of his wife on the right.[6]

References

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  1. ^ painting record in the RKD
  2. ^ Kren, Scott; McKendrick, Scot; Ainsworth, Maryan; Moodey, Elizabeth J. "Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting". Renaissance Quarterly. Volume 57, No. 3, Autumn 2004. p. 344
  3. ^ a b Cornelia Cnoop in historical society biography of Gerard David
  4. ^ Gerard David in the NNBW
  5. ^ Cornelia Cnoop in Bénézit
  6. ^ Early Netherlandish Paintings: Rediscovery, Reception, and Research, edited by Bernhard Ridderbos, Anne van Buren, Henk Th. van Veen, 2005, ISBN 978-0892368167
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