Adoration of the Magi

between 1700 and 1710

Jean Jouvenet French, 1649-1717

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European, Level 2, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Adoration of the Magi

Artwork Date between 1700 and 1710

Artist Jean Jouvenet

Life Dates 1649-1717

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. French

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

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 52 1/8 × 39 inches (132.4 × 99.1 cm) Framed: 63 7/8 × 49 1/8 × 4 1/4 inches (162.2 × 124.8 × 10.8 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation 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. 78.67

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Provenance

April 11-12, 1836, sale Collection M.F. de N. (Hotel des Ventes Mobilières, Paris, France) lot 61;
until 1910, Collection J.R. Ollerenshaw;
(Galerie Abels, Cologne, Germany);
Collection Georg Schaefer (Schweinfurt, Germany);
July 14, 1978, auction of Georg Schaefer collection (Christie's, London, England) lot 138 (pl. 48) [as Adoration of the Shepherds by Noel Nicolas Coypel];
1978, (Julius Weitzner, London, England);
1978-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

[a letter to the DIA by Antoine Schnapper indicates the painting may have the following earlier provenance]
1764, Collection la Live de Jully (Paris, France);
May 2-4, 1770, auction of the Collection la Live de Jully (Remy, France) lot 47 (L.1838--RKD, FARL);
Collection Prince de Conti (Paris, France);
April 8-June 6, 1777, auction of collection Prince de Conti (Remy, France) (L2671--RKD, FARL);
Collection Chaise (Paris, France);
February 4, 1791, auction (Lebrun C.P.: Bouleau, Paris, France) lot 55 (L4664);
Collection La Bas;
May 10, 1793, auction (Paillet, Paris, France) lot 38 (L5058).

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Published References

Alte Meister. Exh. cat., Galerie Abels. Cologne, 1953, p. 1 (ill.).

Weltkunst 23, no. 1 (January 1953): p. 2 (ill.).

Schnapper, A. Jean Jouvenet 1644-1717 et la peinture d'histoire à Paris. Paris, 1974, pp. 202-203, no. 82 [cited the engraving by Alexis Loir before 1705].

In Quest of Excellence. Exh. cat., Center for the Fine Arts. Miami, 1984, p. 93, no. 83 (ill.).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Jean Jouvenet, Adoration of the Magi, between 1700 and 1710, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 78.67.