The Holy Family and Saint John the Baptist

1708

Willem van Mieris Dutch, 1662-1747

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Dutch Golden Age, Level 3, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Title The Holy Family and Saint John the Baptist

Artwork Date 1708

Artist Willem van Mieris

Life Dates 1662-1747

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. Dutch

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: 24 × 19 1/4 inches (61 × 48.9 cm) Framed: 30 3/8 × 25 1/2 × 2 5/8 inches (77.2 × 64.8 × 6.7 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Museum Purchase, Joseph M. de Grimme Memorial Fund, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund; gift of Mr. and Mrs. John N. Lord and Edsel B. Ford Fund by exchange

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. 2004.13

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Signed Signed and dated, lower left, on crate: Willem van Mieris | anno 1708

Provenance

the artist, Willem van Mieris [1662-1747];
commissioned by Pieter de la Court van der Voort (Leiden, Netherlands);
by inheritance to his son, Allard de la Court van der Voort (Leiden, Netherlands);
September 8, 1766, auction de la Court van der Voort-Backer, lot 33;
purchased by Mossel [for fl. 850];
private collection (France);
December 5, 2001, sold by (PIASA, Paris, France) lot 74;
2002, (Rafael Valls Ltd., London, England);
2004, (Jack Kilgore & Co., Inc., New York, New York, USA);
2004-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Weyerman, J. C. De levensbeschryvingen der Nederlandsche konst-schilders en konst-schilderessen. vol. 3, The Hague, 1729, p. 389.

van Gool, J. De nieuwe schouburgh der Nederlandsche kunstschilders en schilderessen. The Hague, 1750, vol. I, p. 195.

Terwesten, P. Catalogus of Naamlyst van Schilderyen met derzelver prysen zedert den 27. Auguste 1752 tot den 21. November 1768. The Hague, 1770, p. 547.

Overvoorde, J.C. "De collectie De la Court." Leidsch Jaarboejke 5 (1908): p. 11.

Hofstede de Groot, C. Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts. Stuttgart, 1928, vol.10, p. 113, no. 26.

Willemyn Fock, C. "Willem van Mieris en zijn mecenas Pieter de la Court van der Voort." Leids Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 2 (1984): pp. 261-282.

Recent Acquisitions 2002. Rafael Valls, Ltd. London, 2002, no. 21 (ill.).

Bulletin of the DIA 78, no. 3/4: Annual Report (2004): pp. 6-7; p. 24 (ill.).

Keyes, George S. “Three Recent Acquisitions by David Teniers the Younger, Philips Wouwerman, and Willem van Mieris.” Bulletin of the DIA 90, no. 1/4 (2016): pp. 44–57 (fig. 12).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Willem van Mieris, The Holy Family and Saint John the Baptist, 1708, oil on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Joseph M. de Grimme Memorial Fund, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, et al., 2004.13.