Christ Crowned with Thorns

ca. 1505

Juan de Flandes Netherlandish, ca. 1465-1519

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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Christ Crowned with Thorns

Artwork Date ca. 1505

Artist Juan de Flandes

Life Dates ca. 1465-1519

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. Netherlandish

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: 8 1/2 × 6 3/8 inches (21.6 × 16.2 cm) Framed: 11 1/4 × 9 × 1 5/8 inches (28.6 × 22.9 × 4.1 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Jacques Goudstikker

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. 30.345

Markings

Marks Seal, on reverse, lower left: [orange wax seal circular motif with cross] Seal, on reverse, lower center: [red wax seal of palette with paint and 3 brushes, surrounded by inscription] Collection Goudstikker Amsterdam Sticker, on reverse, upper left: Dieses Bild war in der Austellung: | "DREI JAHRHUNDERTE VLÄMISCHE KUNST" | vom 11.I. bis 2.III 1930 | in der Wiener-Secession | unter Kat. NO. 49 ausgestellt Sticker, on reverse, upper right: Ed Simon | 21 Sticker, on reverse, center: Collectie Goudstikker | No. 30.345 NB: DIA acc. no. | Heerengracht 458 | Amsterdam

Provenance

Queen Isabel of Castile [d. November 26,1504] (Spain);
by February 25, 1505, estate of Queen Isabel of Castile (Toro, Zamora, Spain) [as "la coronacion despinas," valued at 4 ducados];
by March 13, 1505, purchased by Diego Flores, treasurer to Margaret of Austria (Toro, Zamora, Spain) [as "la coronacion despinas,"for 1500 maravedis, one of 32 acquired];
by July 17, 1516, Margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands (Mechelen, Belgium) [as one of 32];
sold in (Marseilles, France);
by 1929, Dr. Eduard Simon (Berlin, Germany);
1929, sale of Dr. Eduard Simon (Berlin, Germany) no. 21;
1929, Jacques Goudstikker (Amsterdam, Netherlands);
1930-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Justi, C. "Juan de Flandes, ein niederländischen Hofmaler Isbella der Katholischen." Jahrbuch der Königlich Preussischen Kunstsammlungen 8 (1887): p. 157ff, no. 25.

Justi, C. "Der Gemäldeschatz der Königin Isabella." Miscellaneen aus drei Jahrhunderten spanischen Kunstlebens, vol. 1. Berlin, 1908, p. 315ff, no. 25.

Justi, C. Archiv für Kunstgeschichte. Leipzig, 1914, vol. 2, pl. 105.

Ausstellung. Exh. cat., Kaiser Freidrich Museums Verein. Berlin, 1914, no. 74.

Drei Jahrhunderte vlämische Kunst. Exh. cat., Wiener-Secession. Vienna, 1930, no. 49.

Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 113 (ill.).

Sánchez Cantón, F.J. "El Retablo de la Reina Católica." Archivo español de arte y arqueología 6 or 17 (1930): pp. 118 and 127, (ill.) p. 126, pl. XV.

Bulletin of the DIA 12, no. 5 (1931): p. 49, cover (ill.).

Richardson, E.P. Flemish Painting of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. Detroit, 1936, (fig. 5).

Guidol, José. Spanish Painting. Exh. cat., Toledo Museum of Art. Toledo, March-April 1941, no. 29, p. 45 (ill.).

Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, pp. 71-72, 172, no. 113 (ill.).

The Life of Christ. Exh. cat., Wadsworth Atheneum. Hartford, 1948, p. 19, no. 99.

Cornelis, J.L. Margareta von Oostenrijk en haar hof. Exh. cat., World Exposition. Mechelen, 1958, pp. 4-5, no. 38.

Bermejo, E. "Juan des Flandes." Instituto Diego Velazquez, del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas. Madrid, 1962, p. 42, no. 11 (ill.).

Anzelewsky, F. "Der Meister der Lübecker Bibel von 1494." Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 27, part 1 (1964): p. 53, pl. 13 (ill.).

Cuttler, C. "Simulated Reliefs in a Painting by Juan de Flandes." Source 1, no. 1 (1981): pp. 7-11 (ill.).

Ishikawa, C. The Retablo de Isabel la Católica by Juan de Flandes and Michel Sittow. Turnhout, 2004, cat. 7, pp. 14, 45, 57-8, 62, 65, 94-7, 161-2 n. 44-56, 167 [as "[17] la coronacion despinas"], 169 [as "[31] la coronacion despinas"], (figs. 47, 49; infrared), color plate p. 188. [dates painting c.1497-8, although notes P. Klein's dating of panel to c.1504 in footnote 44.]

Silva Maroto, P. Juan de Flandes. Salamanca, 2006, pp. 228-231. [considers that there is no scientific ground to date the different panels in the Retablo as Ishikawa did in 2004. See Silva, p. 185.]

Weniger, Matthias. Sittow, Morros, Juan de Flandes: Drei Maler aus dem Norden am Hof Isabellas der Katholischen. Kiel, 2011, pp. 441-442 (14.8, 345). [attributed to Morros.]

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