About the Artwork
Water
between 1660 and 1670
Jan van Kessel the Elder
1626-1679
Flemish
Unknown
Oil on copper
Framed: 14 7/8 × 18 1/4 × 2 3/8 inches (37.8 × 46.4 × 6 cm) Unframed: 10 × 13 1/2 inches (25.4 × 34.3 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.15
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, at lower left: I.V. KESSEL F.
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Provenance
Collection Corbett-Winder (Vaynor Park, Berriew, Wales)
April 6, 1889, auction (Christie's, London, England) lot 74
1889-1909, James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Scripps, J.E. Catalogue of a Private Collection of Old Masters. Detroit, 1889, p. 56, no. 65.
"The Scripps Old Masters," The Collector 2, no. 13 (May 1, 1891): pp. 149-152, p. 150 [as by Jan van Kessel, "A Small Lake"].
Scripps, J.E. Catalogue of a Private Collection of Scripps. Detroit, 1900, p. 14, no. 3.
Scripps, J.E. Cataloguew of a Private Collection of Ancient and Modern Paintings formed by James E. Scripps. Detroit, 1900, 2nd ed., p. 14, no. 38.
"Mrs. Harriet Scripps Presents Fifteen Old Masters." Bulletin of the DIA 3, 4 (1909): p. 47.
Detroit Museum of Art, Handbook of Paintings by the Old Masters. Detroit, 1910, p. 50, no. 76.
Detroit Institute of Arts, Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Contemporary Arts and Crafts. Detroit, 1920, p.52, no. 45.
Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts, Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 74, no. 602.
Le Siècle de Rubens dans les Collections Publiques Françaises. Exh. cat., Grand Palais. Paris, 1977, p. 120, no. 81.
Held, J.S. Flemish and German Paintings of the 17th Century, the Collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1982, pp. 67-68 (ill.).
Copper as Canvas. Exh. cat., Phoenix Art Museum. Phoenix, 1998, p. 21 (fig. 1.5).
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Jan van Kessel the Elder, Water, between 1660 and 1670, oil on copper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.15.
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