Abbot Johann Ingenray

1535

Bartholomäus Bruyn the Elder German, 1493 - 1555

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About the Artwork

Title Abbot Johann Ingenray

Artwork Date 1535

Artist Bartholomäus Bruyn the Elder

Life Dates 1493 - 1555

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. German

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on oak panel

Dimensions Unframed: 40 × 47 inches (101.6 × 119.4 cm) Unframed: 48 1/4 × 53 × 2 1/2 inches (122.6 × 134.6 × 6.4 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 44.281

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Inscriptions Inscribed, at lower right: 1535

Provenance

until 1806, Abbey Kamp (Rheinberg, Germany) [until dissolution of monastary by Napoleon];
house of the parish priest (Rheinberg, Germany);
1833, Baron von der Leyen-Bloemersheim (Haus Meer near Düsseldorf, Germany);
March 1936, purchased by Galerie Stern (Düsseldorf, Germany);
1936, Siegfried and Gerda [née Stern] Thalheimer (Paris, France);
1936, O. Hirschmann (Amsterdam, Netherlands);
(Hedi Stern and her brother Max in partnership with Cornelis van de Wetering, West's Galleries, London, England);
1943, on consigment with (E. and A. Silbermann Galleries);
(Max Stern's brother-in-law Siegfried Thalheimer in partnership with Otto Gerson, Fine Arts Associates, New York, New York, USA)
December 1944-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Michiels, F. Geschichte und Beschreibungen der ehemaligen Abtei Camp bei Rheinfeld. Crefeld, 1832 and 1935, p. 192 (ill.).

Oude Kunst uit het Bezit van den Internationalen Handel. Exh. cat., Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam, 1936, p. 14, cat. 55 (ill.). [as dated 1531 at upper right.]

Dutch and Flemish Portraits and Genre-Pictures of the 16th and 17th Centuries. Exh. cat., West's Galleries. London, December 1938, cat. 1.

“Dutch and Flemish Portraits and Genre Pictures.” Burlington Magazine 73, no. 429 (December 1938): 281, p. 281.

Richardson, Edgar Preston. “A Cistercian Abbot by Mabuse.” Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 24, no. 5 (1945): pp. 58-62 cover (ill.).

Richardson, Edgar Preston. “A Cistercian Abbot by Mabuse.” Art Quarterly 8, no. 1 (1945): pp. 74-79 (ill.).

Art News 44, no. 9 (July 1945): p. 13 (ill.).

Le Portrait dans l'art Flamand. Exh. Musée de l'Orangerie. Paris, 1952-1953, p. 33, no. 21 (ill.).

R.Q. Note e Commenti, Emporium. Rivista mensile illustrata d'arte e di cultura, 157, no. 701 (1953): p. 213 (ill.).

Dominon Gallery. Canadian Art 11, no. 4 (Summer 1954): p 154.

An Exhibition of Paintings for the benefit of the Research Fund of Art and Archeology, The Spanish Institute, Inc. Exh. cat., E. and A. Silberman Galleries. New York, 1955, p. 25, no. 13 (ill.).

Osten, G. von der. "Studien zu Jan Gossaert." Opuscula XL, Essays in Honor of Erwin Panofsky ed. by M. Meiss. New York, 1961, p. 474 (fig. 74).

Mellen, Werner. “Johanned Middels und Johannes Ingenray.” Die Heimat 73 (2002): p.136-138 (ill.)

Auktion 392, Reclaiming the Galerie Stern, Duesseldorf. Exh. cat., FOFA Gallery, Concordia University. Montreal, 2006, p. 12 (fig. 14).

Schindler, Robert. Das Bildnis des Johann Ingenray in Detroit. Sonderdruck aus dem Wallraaf-Richartz-Jarbuch LXXV (2014) pp. 165-184, fig. 3 (ill.)

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Bartholomäus Bruyn the Elder, Abbot Johann Ingenray, 1535, oil on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 44.281.