Legend of St. Christopher

probably between 1506 and 1526

Jan de Cock Netherlandish, ca. 1490-1527

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About the Artwork

Title Legend of St. Christopher

Artwork Date probably between 1506 and 1526

Artist Jan de Cock

Life Dates ca. 1490-1527

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: 19 7/8 × 13 3/8 inches (50.5 × 34 cm) Framed: 26 1/8 × 19 7/8 × 2 9/16 inches (66.4 × 50.5 × 6.5 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Jules S. Bache

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. 43.57

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Provenance

until January 1917, collection of L. Gordon Stables (London, England);
January 12, 1917-January 1918, purchased by (F. Kleinberger Galleries, New York, New York, USA);
January 23, 1918, auctioned by (American Art Association, Plaza Hotel, New York, New York, USA), lot 16;
January 23, 1918-February 1919, purchased by C. A. Platt (Englewood, New Jersey, USA);
February 10-11, 1919, auctioned by (American Art Association, New York, New York, USA), lot 18;
collection of Jules S. Bache (New York, New York, USA);
1943-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

"Annual Report," Bulletin of the DIA 23, no. 3 (December 1943): p. 18.

Richardson, E. P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 28, no. 481 [as Jan de Cock].

Gluck, G. "Pieter Bruegel the Elder and the Legend of St. Christopher in Early Flemish Painting," Art Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 1 (Winter 1950): p. 45, note 17.

The City by the River and the Sea: Five Centuries of Skylines. Exh. cat., Dayton Art Institute. Dayton, April 18-June 3, 1951, p. 26, cat. 26.

Beets, N. "Nog eens 'Jan Wellens de Cock' en de zonen van Cornelis Engebrechtsz: Pieter Cornelisz Kunst, Cornelis Cornelisz Kunst, Lucas Cornelisz de Kock," Oud Holland, vol. 67 (1952): pp. 18-21, (fig. 11) [attrib. to Lucas Cornelisz de Kock].

Panofsky, E. Early Netherlandish painting. 1953, note 1, p. 94 [on p. 395].

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