The Highway Robbery

ca. 1625

Cornelis Hendriksz Vroom, Artist Esaias van de Velde, Artist

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Dutch Golden Age, Level 3, South Wing

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Title The Highway Robbery

Artwork Date ca. 1625

Makers Cornelis Hendriksz Vroom (Artist) Dutch, 1591-1661 Esaias van de Velde (Artist) Dutch, 1587-1630

Medium Oil on oak panel

Dimensions Unframed: 12 3/8 × 18 1/2 inches (31.4 × 47 cm) Framed: 17 1/8 × 23 1/4 × 2 inches (43.5 × 59.1 × 5.1 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Kanzler

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. 45.24

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1945, (A.F. Mondshein, New York, New York, USA)

1945, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA) in exchange for a painting by Sir William Beechey, possibly in the collection of Mr. & Mrs. Ernest Kanzler (Detroit, Michigan, USA), or purchased with funds from same.

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Published References

The Young Rembrandt and his Times. Exh. cat., John Herron Institute and Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego. Indianapolis and San Diego, 1958, cat. 36 (ill.).

17th Century Painters of Haarlem. Exh. cat., Allentown Art Museum. Allentown, 1965, cat. 37 (ill.).

Keyes, G. Cornelis Vroom: Marine and Landscape Artist, 2 vols. Alphen aan den Rijn: Canaletto, 1975; vol. 1, p. 70; vol. 2, pp. 180-181, no. P 15 (fig. 31).

Keyes, G. Esaias van den Velde 1587-1630. Doornspijk, 1984, pp. 114, 180. no. XXXII, pl. 376.

Wissman, F.W. European Vistas: Cultural Landscapes. Detroit, 2000, pp. 104-105 (ill.).

Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts, London, 2004, pp. 252-255.

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Esaias van de Velde; Cornelis Hendriksz Vroom, The Highway Robbery, ca. 1625, oil on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Kanzler, 45.24.