Two Jesters

between 1550 and 1575

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About the Artwork

Title Two Jesters

Artwork Date between 1550 and 1575

Artist ----------

Life Dates ----------

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. Flemish

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: 25 3/4 × 21 1/8 × 7/8 inches (65.4 × 53.7 × 2.2 cm) Framed: 37 3/4 × 33 1/4 × 3 inches (95.9 × 84.5 × 7.6 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund

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. 39.1

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Provenance

1935, (art market, Paris, France);
1938, Alexander Popoff (Paris);
(Leo Grinberg, dealer/agent for Popoff, New York, New York, USA);
1939-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Friedländer, M.J. Altniederländische Malerei, vol. 13. Leiden, 1936, pp. 57-58, 151, no. 109, pl. 29 [as Lambert Lombard.]

Richardson, E.P. "Two Court Fools by Frans Floris." Bulletin of the DIA 18, no. 8 (1939) pp. 2-4 (cover ill.). [as by Floris.]

McVan, A.J. "Spanish Dwarfs." NOTES HISPANIC 2 (1942): p. 103 (fig. 5). [as by Floris.]

Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 47, no. 531. [as by Frans Floris.]

Pictures of Everyday Life: Genre Painting in Europe 1500-1900." Exh. cat., Carnegie Institute. Pittsburgh, 1954, cat. 6. [as by Frans Floris.]

Tietze-Conrat, E. Dwarfs and Jesters in Art. London, 1957, p. 101. [as by Floris.]

Puyvelde, L. van. La Peinture Flamande au Siècle de Bosch et de Brueghel. Paris, 1962, p. 339. [as by Floris.]

Friedländer, M.J. Early Netherlandish Painting, vol. 13. Leiden and Brussels, 1975, p. 83, no. 109, pl. 55. [as by Lombard.]

Held, J.S. Flemish and German Paintings of the Seventeenth Century, The Collections of The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1982, pp. 51-53 (ill.). [as Flemish artist(s).]

Amsterdam, A. Mak. "Catalogue de Tableaux, Collections Arnold Van Buuren." May 1925, cat. 93, pp. 32.

Kubersky-Piredda, Susanne and Salvador Salort-Pons, "Ein Hofnarr als Agent. Zum diplomatischen Geschenkwesen am Hof Philipps II." Materielle Grundlagen der Diplomatie: Schenken, Sammeln und Verhandeln in Spätmittelalter und Früher Neuzeit. Konstanz, 2013, p. 131 (color ill.).

Beuzelin, Cécile. “Le Fou, le Nain et le Chein: le Monde à L’Envers à la Cour D’Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle.” Seizième Siècle 12 (2016): pp. 83–111 (ill.).

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