
Holy Family
Workshop of Joos van Cleve · c. 1525
Provenance
Ownership history
- Marczell de Nemes, Budapest; sold, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Paris, June 17–18, 1913, no. 18, as Master of the Death of the Virgin, to Kleinberger, Paris, as agent for Ryerson [Kleinberger stock card, Department of European Painting, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and invoice, June 18, 1913, Art Institute Archives]; Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, 1913; on loan to the Art Institute from 1913; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Kleinberger, Loan Exhibition of Flemish Primitives, 1929, no. 56, as Joos van Cleve.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 36, as Joos van Cleve.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1934, no. 117, as Joos van Cleve.
Literature
Published references
- The Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Objects in the Museum, 1914, p. 209, no. 2100.
- “Loan Collections,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 7 (1914), p. 38.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings, vol. 2, August 1920, p. 61.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, and Paintings, May 1922, p. 70.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, 1925, p. 159, no. 2013.
- Rose Mary Fischkin, “Martin A. Ryerson Collection of Paintings and Sculpture, XIII to XVII Century, Loaned to The Art Institute of Chicago,” unpub. MS, 1926, Ryerson Library, The Art Institute of Chicago, pp. 87–89.
- Max J. Friedländer, Die altniederländische Malerei, vol. 9, Berlin, 1931, p. 138, no. 66l; rev. English ed., Early Netherlandish Painting, Brussels and Leiden, 1972, p. 65, no. 66l, pl. 85.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, 1932, p. 179, no. 461.13.
- Alfred M. Frankfurter, “Art in the Century of Progress,” Fine Arts 20, 2 (1933), pp. 21 (ill.), 60.
- Daniel Catton Rich, “Die Ausstellung ‘Fünf Jahrhunderte der Frühmalerei in Chicago,’” Pantheon 6 (1933), p. 376.
- An American Correspondent, “Flemish and Dutch Paintings in the Ryerson Collection,” Connoisseur 119 (1947), p. 50.
- Harry B. Wehle and Margaretta Salinger, A Catalogue of Early Flemish, Dutch and German Paintings, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1947, p. 135.
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