About the Artwork
The Triumph of Truth
ca. 1598
Hans von Aachen
1552-1615
German
Unknown
Oil on copper
Unframed: 23 5/8 × 19 5/8 × 1/8 inches (60 × 49.8 × 0.3 cm) Framed: 30 3/4 × 27 1/8 × 2 inches (78.1 × 68.9 × 5.1 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Museum Purchase, with funds from the European Paintings Council; gifts from Mr. and Mrs. William A. Fisher and James E. Scripps by exchange
2002.2
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Provenance
Colonel Leslie (Scotland)
July 11, 2001, sold by (Christie's, London, England) lot 46
2001-2002, Robert Pintelon (Aalst, Belgium)
2002-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA: Annual Report 76, nos. 3/4 (2002): pp. 7, 24, 25, 27 (ill.).
Keyes, G.S. "Observations Concerning an Autograph Variant by Hans Von Aachen." Acta Historiae Artium (Festschrift Susan Urbach) 44 (2003): pp. 207-212 (fig. 1).
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Hans von Aachen, The Triumph of Truth, ca. 1598, oil on copper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, with funds from the European Paintings Council; gifts from Mr. and Mrs. William A. Fisher et al., 2002.2.
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