About the Artwork
A Pass in the Apennines
between 1655 and 1660
Jan Wils
ca. 1600 - 1666
Dutch
Unknown
Oil on oak panel
Unframed: 16 1/2 × 23 1/2 inches (41.9 × 59.7 cm) Framed: 22 3/4 × 29 1/2 × 2 1/4 inches (57.8 × 74.9 × 5.7 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of James E. Scripps
89.31
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Provenance
1881, collection M. Tencé (Lille, France)
December 12, 18881, sold by (Drouot exp. Féral & Martin, Paris, France), lot 10. April 6, 1889, sold by (Christie's, London, England), lot 123
April 6, 1889, purchased by James E. Scripps [1835-1906] (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1889-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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"The Scripps Old Masters," The Collector 2, no. 13 (May 1, 1891): pp. 149-152, p. 149 [as by Jan Both, “A View in the Apennines”].
Scripps, James E. Handbook of the Paintings Ancient and Modern, Belonging to the Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1895, pp. 26-27, no. 45 [as by Jan Both, “A View in the Apennines”].
Handbook of Paintings by the Old Masters. DMA. Detroit, 1910, p. 35, no. 45.
Burroughs, C. Catalogue of paintings, sculpture and contemporary arts and crafts. DIA. Detroit, 1920, p. 44, no. 34.
Hofstede de Groot, C. Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. 9. 1927, p. 469, no. 162.
Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 14, (repr.).
Richardson, E. P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings. DIA. Detroit, 1944, p. 15, no. 14.
Italy through Dutch Eyes. Exh. cat., Univerity of Michigan Museum of Art. Ann Arbor, April 22-May 24, 1964, cat. 15, pl. 6.
Nederlandse 17e eeuwse Italianiserende Landschapschilders. Exh. cat., Centraal Museum. Utrecht, 1965, p. 125, cat. 99, (fig. 59).
Stechow, W. Dutch Landscape Painting of the Seventeenth Century. London, 1966, pp. 157, 489, pl. 316.
Burke, J. Jan Both. New York, Garland, 1976, pp. 165, 194, no. 20, (fig. 20).
Solar, G. Jan Hackaert die Schweizer Ansichten 1653-1656. Zurich, Dietikon, 1981, p. 12, pl. 5.
Masters of 17th-Century Dutch Landscape Painting. Exh. cat, Rijksmuseum, Museum of Fine Arts, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Amsterdam, Boston, Philadelphia, 1987-1988, pp. 277-278, cat. no. 14, pl. 52 [exhibition organized by Peter C. Sutton].
Jongh, E. de, Kwesties van betekenis. Thema en motief in de Nederlandse schilderkunst van de zeventiende eeuw. Leiden, Primavera Pers, 1995, p. 168, pl. 1.
Davies, A. I.. Allart van Everdingen 1621-1675 First Painter of Scandinavian Landscape. Doornspijk, 2001, p. 106 [cites 89.31 as influenced by A. van Everdingen painting of 1647 in Braunschweig--cat. 28].
Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 264-265, entry by A. K. Wheelock, Jr.
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attributed to Jan Wils, A Pass in the Apennines, between 1655 and 1660, oil on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of James E. Scripps, 89.31.
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