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Cornelia Cnoop

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Cornelia Cnoop
Portrait of Cornelia as donor, by her husband
Born1450
NationalityNetherlands

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 Gerard David.

Madonna Lactans. formerly attributed to Cornelia Cnoop in 1902, central panel of a triptych, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

She was born in Bruges as the daughter of the goldsmith Jacob Cnoop de Jongere and Kathelijne uter Vorst.[2] Her father was a dean of the goldsmiths' guild.[3] She married Gerard David in 1497.[4] They had a daughter Barbara.[2] 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.[5]

References

  1. ^ painting record in the RKD
  2. ^ a b Cornelia Cnoop in historical society biography of Gerard David
  3. ^ Gerard David in the NNBW
  4. ^ Cornelia Cnoop in Bénézit
  5. ^ Early Netherlandish Paintings: Rediscovery, Reception, and Research, edited by Bernhard Ridderbos, Anne van Buren, Henk Th. van Veen, 2005, ISBN 978-0892368167