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Judith
Jan Sanders van Hemessen · c. 1540
Provenance
Ownership history
- Marie Catherine d’Onyn de Chastre (née Baronne de Herckenrode) (1731–1824); sold, Douarière d’Onyn de Chastre (née Baronne de Herckenrode), Leuven, Belgium, June 10, 1825, lot 129, to Désiré van den Schrieck (1785–1857), Leuven, Belgium. With Robert Lebel, Paris, by 1956; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1956.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Kansas City, MO, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Visiting Masterpiece: Jan Sanders van Hemessen, Judith, September 24, 2019-October 30, 2020.
Literature
Published references
- Robert Lebel, “Une ‘Judith’ de Jan van Hemessen,” Journal de l’amateur d’art 10, 101 (1956), p. 3 (ill.).
- Hans Huth, “A Mannerist Judith for the Art Institute,” AIC Quarterly 51, 1 (1957), pp. 2 (ill.), 3.
- S.V., “Nuovi acquisti all’Art Institute,” Emporium 63 (1957), pp. 185–86 (ill.).
- Helen Comstock, “A Flemish Mannerist Judith,” Connoisseur 140 (1957), p. 139 (ill.).
- Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), pp. 214–15.
- Giorgio T. Faggin, La pittura ad Anversa nel Cinquecento (Florence, 1968), pl. 111.
- Gert von der Osten and Horst Vey, Painting and Sculpture in Germany and the Netherlands, 1500 to 1600 (Harmondsworth, 1969), p. 198, pl. 183.
- John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (London, 1970), pp. 255 (ill.), 287.
- Paul Wescher, “Jan van Hemessen und Jan van Amstel,” Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen, n.s., 12 (1970), pp. 42–43, fig. 6.
- Jan Bialostocki, “La gamba sinistra della Giuditta: Il quadro di Giorgione nella storia del tema,” in Giorgione e l’umanesimo veneziano, ed. Rodolfo Pallucchini (Florence, 1981), pp. 216–17; trans. and repr. in Jan Bialostocki, The Message of Images: Studies in the History of Art (Vienna, 1988), pp. 126, 261.
- Burr Wallen, Jan van Hemessen: An Antwerp Painter between Reform and Counter-Reform (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1983), pp. 2, 107–08, 309–10, no. 36, fig. 121.
- Peter C. Sutton, A Guide to Dutch Art in America (Washington, D.C., and Grand Rapids, Mich., 1986), p. 49, fig. 65.
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