
The Temptation of the Magdalene
Jacob Jordaens · c. 1616
Provenance
Ownership history
- Private collection, Brussels, 1928 [see Brussels 1928, no. 34]. Édouard Napoléon César Edmond Mortier, duc de Trévise (died 1946), Paris [according to Jaffé in Ottawa 1968; it was not part of his sale in Paris, May 19, 1938]. Sold, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, March 12, 1951, no. 57. Morris I. Kaplan (died 1966), Chicago; offered for sale, Sotheby's , London, June 12, 1968, no. 56, bought in; heirs of Morris I. Kaplan (on loan to the Art Institute of Chicago since 1969); sold to the Art Institute, 1991.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Brussels, Jacob Jordaens, 1928, no. 34.
- Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Jacob Jordaens 1593-1678, 1968, no. 7.
Literature
Published references
- Michael Jaffé, "The Robust Virtuosity of Jordaens," Apollo 88 (1968), p. 373, fig. 13.
- R.-A. d'Hulst, exh. review of National Gallery of Canada, Jacob Jordaens 1593-1678 cat. by Michael Jaffé in Art Bulletin 51 (1969) p. 381.
- John Rowlands, "Jordaens at Ottawa," Pantheon 27 (1969) p. 316.
- Julian S. Held, "Jordaens at Ottawa," Burlington Magazine 111 (1969), p. 271.
- "Conseils aux acheteurs," Connaissance des arts no. 203 (1969) p. 89, fig. 6.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1990–91, Chicago, 1991, p. 19, fig. 2.
- Rüdiger Klessmann, “Johann Liss’s ‘Temptation of the Magdalene',” Burlington Magazine138 (1996), p. 187. fig. 49.
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