Scenes from the Life of Jacob: The Birth of Dan

between 1580 and 1600

Suzanne de Court French, 1580-1600

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European: 17th Century French, Level 2, South Wing

Scenes from the Life of Jacob: The Birth of Dan

Scenes from the Life of Jacob: The Birth of Dan: 1 of Collection Gallery

Scenes from the Life of Jacob: The Birth of Dan: 2 of Collection Gallery

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About the Artwork

Title Scenes from the Life of Jacob: The Birth of Dan

Artwork Date between 1580 and 1600

Artist Suzanne de Court

Life Dates 1580-1600

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. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Enameled metal with polychrome and gilded decoration

Dimensions Overall: 1 1/2 × 9 3/4 inches (3.8 × 24.8 cm)

Classification Enamel

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Joseph M. de Grimme Memorial Fund, funds from A. Alfred Taubman, Gordon and Linda Stewart, John L. Booth, Sr. Memorial Fund, and funds from Alan and Marianne Schwartz; gifts from Mrs. Byron C. Foy, W. Hawkins Ferry, Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Webber, Mrs. Russell Alger, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Wilkinson, Mrs. Walter O. Briggs, Mr. and Mrs. David B. Moreing, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Harman Booth, John Lord Booth, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb, Lillian Henkel Haass, Mrs. Trent McMath, Mrs. Henry Stephens 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. 1995.15

Markings

Signed Signed: S.C. [monogram of Suzanne de Court]

Inscriptions Inscribed, below rim at top of scene: GENESE XXX

Provenance

Lord and Lady Swaythling Collection;
May 12, 1970, sold by (Christie, Manson & Woods, London, England) lot 30 [1800 gns.];
Perman;
(Cyril Humphris, London, England);
January 10, 1995, sold by (Sotheby's New York, New York, USA) lot 11;
1995-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Emaux de Limoges de la Renaissance. Paris, 1994, p. 96, (ill.); p. 99, (figs. 26 and 27).

Darr, A., T. Albainy. "Acquisitions of European sculpture and decorative arts at the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1988 - 1999." The Burlington Magazine 142 (June 2000): p. 407, no. 8.

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Suzanne de Court, Scenes from the Life of Jacob: The Birth of Dan, between 1580 and 1600, enameled metal with polychrome and gilded decoration. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Joseph M. de Grimme Memorial Fund, funds from A. Alfred Taubman, et al., 1995.15.