Pilgrim

ca. between 1530 and 1540

Jan van Scorel Netherlandish, 1495-1562

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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Pilgrim

Artwork Date ca. between 1530 and 1540

Artist Jan van Scorel

Life Dates 1495-1562

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 arched masonite panel (transferred from wood)

Dimensions Unframed: 25 1/4 × 17 1/8 inches (64.1 × 43.5 cm) Framed: 36 1/2 × 30 3/8 × 3 inches (92.7 × 77.2 × 7.6 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase, donation from Mr. and Mrs. James A. Beresford

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. 73.5

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Provenance

Essingh (Cologne, Germany);
private collection (Trier, Germany);
Rudolf Chillingworth (Nürnberg, Germany);
September 5, 1922, sold by Fischer (Lucerne, Switzerland) auction Chillingworth, lot 35;
George G. Booth (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
Cranbrook Academy of Art (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA);
May 17-18, 1972, sold by (Parke-Bernet, New York, New York, USA) auction Cranbrook Academy of Art, lot 75;
1972-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Friedländer, M.J. Von Eyck bis Bruegel. Berlin, 1916, pp. 167, 201 (ill.).

Friedländer, M.J. Von Eyck bis Bruegel, 2nd ed. Berlin, 1921, pp. 167, 201 (ill.).

Hoogewerff, G.J. Jan van Scorel. The Hague, 1923, pp. 78, 136, no. 39, (pl. XXXIII).

Winkler, F. Die Altniederländische Malerei. Berlin, 1924, p. 282.

The Third Loan Exhibition of Old Masters Italian, Flemish, Dutch, German, French, Spanish and English Fifteenth to Nineteenth Century. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1926, cat. 16 (ill.).

Valentiner, W. R. "A Painting by Jan van Scorel and a Drawing by David Joris." Bulletin of the DIA 14, no. 4 (October 1934): pp. 2-7; p. 5 (ill.).

Friedländer, M.J. Die Altniederländische Malerei, vol. 12. Leiden, 1935, pp. 136, 205, no. 306, (pl. LXXIII).

Hoogewerff, G.J. "Jan van Scorel." In Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon, vol. 30. Leipzig, 1936, pp. 401-405.

Jonge, C.H. de. Jan van Scorel. Amsterdam, 1940, pp. 26-28, p. 31 (repr.).

Hoogewerff, G.J. De Noord-Nederlandsche Schilderkunst, vol. 4. The Hague, 1942, pp. 164-165.

Loan Exhibition of Early Dutch Paintings 1460-1540. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1944, pp. 7, 14, cat. 20 (ill.).

Five Centuries of Dutch Art. Exh. cat., Art Association of Montreal. Montreal, 1944, cat. 14.

Holbein and his Contemporaries. Exh. cat., John Herron Art Institute. Indianapolis, 1950, cat. 66 (ill.).

Jan van Scorel. Exh. cat., Centraal Museum. Utrecht, 1955, p. 53, cat. 41 (fig. 45).

Meesterwerken uit Amerika universiteits-musea. Exh. cat., Centraal Museum. Utrecht, 1956, cat. 42 (ill.).

Friedländer, M.J. From Van Eyck to Bruegel, F. Grossmann, ed. London, 1956, pp. 133-134 (fig. 273).

Bulletin of the DIA 52, no. 1 (1973): p. 68 (ill.).

Bangs, J.D. "The Sixteenth-Century Organ of the Pieterskerck Leiden." Oud Holland 88 (1974): pp. 220-231 [relating with a document of 1541/1542].

Friedländer, M.J. Early Netherlandish Painting, vol. 12, H. Pauwels and G. Lemmens, ed. 1975, pp. 73-74, 126, no. 360, (pl. 190).

Cerutti, W. Haarlemse Jeruzalemvaarders, Uitgeverij Sparr en Hout. 2010, pp. 76, 118 [as attributed to Jan van Scorel].

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Jan van Scorel, Pilgrim, ca. between 1530 and 1540, oil on arched masonite panel (transferred from wood). Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, donation from Mr. and Mrs. James A. Beresford, 73.5.