About the Artwork
Christ in the House of Martha and Mary
1620
Hendrik van Steenwyck the Younger
1580-1649
Flemish
Unknown
Oil on copper
Unframed: 13 1/8 × 19 5/8 × 1/16 inches (33.3 × 49.8 × 0.1 cm) Framed: 18 3/8 × 24 3/4 × 1 3/4 inches (46.7 × 62.9 × 4.5 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of James E. Scripps
89.64
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed and dated, at lower right on doorjamb: H. V.S. | 1620
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Provenance
(Martin Colnaghi, London, England)
James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1889-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Scripps, J.E. Detroit Museum of Art Catalogue of the Scripps Collection of Old Masters. Detroit, 1889, p. 35, no. 36.
"The Scripps Old Masters," The Collector 2, no. 13 (May 1, 1891): pp. 149-152, p. 151 [as by Henry Steenwyck (The Younger)].
Scripps, James E. Handbook of the Paintings Ancient and Modern Belonging to the Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1895, p. 20.
Detroit Museum of Art Bulletin 2, no. 1 (1908): pp. 4, 7 (ill.).
Detroit Museum of Art Handbook of Paintings by the Old Masters. Detroit, 1910, p. 29, no. 32 (ill.).
Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Contemporary Arts and Crafts. Detroit, 1920, p. 75, no. 76.
Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 216 (ill.).
Richardson, E.P. "Architectural Painting in the Netherlands." Bulletin of the DIA 16, no. 7 (1937): pp. 106-113 (ill.), p. 109.
Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 128, no. 216.
Held, J.S. Flemish and German Paintings of the 17th Century: The Collections of the DIA. Detroit, 1982, pp. 108-110 (ill.)
Bauman, G.C. and W. Liedtke. Flemish Paintings in America. Antwerp, 1992, p. 369, no. 461 (ill.).
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Hendrik van Steenwyck the Younger, Christ in the House of Martha and Mary, 1620, oil on copper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of James E. Scripps, 89.64.
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