
Landscape with Tournament and Hunters
Jan van Scorel · 1519–20
Provenance
Ownership history
- R. Sabelsky, Saint Petersburg [according to the catalogue of the Roerich sale in 1930 cited below]. Roerich Museum, New York, by 1927 [according to the catalogue of the Roerich sale]; sold, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, Mar. 27–28, 1930, no. 128. George F. Harding, Jr. (d. 1939), Chicago; bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago; ownership transferred to the Art Institute, 1982; accessioned, 1990.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Corona Mundi International Art Center (Roerich Museum), Exhibition of Old Masters, 1927, no. 1, as Vinckboons.
- Art Institute of Chicago, On the Road to Italy: Early Paintings by Dutch Renaissance Master Jan van Scorel, 1998 (no cat.).
Literature
Published references
- Friedrich Winkler, “Jan Scorel oder “Zuan Fiamengo,” Oud Holland 48 (1931), p. 176, fig. 2.
- M[olly] F[aries], in Fiamminghi a Roma, 1508–1608, exh. cat., Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, and Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, 1995, p. 255, under no. 179.
- Molly Faries and Martha Wolff, “Landscape in the Early Paint ings of Jan van Scorel,” Burlington Magazine 138 (1996), pp. 724–33, figs. 2, 5, 17, 18.
- Molly Faries, “Scorel, Jan van,” in Dictionary of Art, vol. 28, 1996, p. 216.
- Monika Anne Schmitter, “7e Display of Distinction: Art Collecting and Social Status in Early Sixteenth-Century Venice,” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1997, pp. 69, 76.
- Molly Faries, “Jan van Scorel’s Jerusalem Landscapes,” in In Detail: New Studies of Northern Renaissance Art in Honor of Walter S. Gibson, ed. Laurinda S. Dixon, Turnhout, 1998, pp. 114–16, 128, 131, fig. 2.
- Jill Dunkerton, “North and South: Painting Techniques in Venice,” in Renaissance Venice and the North: Crosscurrents in the Time of Bellini, Dürer and Titian, exh. cat., ed. Bernard Aikema and Beverly Louise Brown, Venice, Palazzo Grassi, 1999, p.
- Beverly Louise Brown, in Renaissance Venice and the North, p. 462, under no. 125.
- Molly Faries, “Another New Early Jan van Scorel,” in Polyptiek: Een veelluik van Groninger bijdragen aan de kunstgeschiedenis, ed. Henk Th. van Veen et al., Zwolle, 2002, pp. 42–44, 47, 221–22.
- Martha Wolff in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 297-301, ill.
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