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    Judith
    Jan Sanders van Hemessen. Judith, c. 1540. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00000562

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    Judith

    by Jan Sanders van Hemessen

    Provenance

    Marie Catherine d’Onyn de Chastre (née Baronne de Herckenrode) (1731–1824); sold, Douarière d’Onyn de Chastre (née Baronne de Herckenrode), Leuven, Belgium, June 10, 1825, lot 129, to Désiré van den Schrieck (1785–1857), Leuven, Belgium. With Robert Lebel, Paris, by 1956; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1956.

    Exhibition history

    Kansas City, MO, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Visiting Masterpiece: Jan Sanders van Hemessen, Judith, September 24, 2019-October 30, 2020.

    Publications

    Robert Lebel, “Une ‘Judith’ de Jan van Hemessen,” Journal de l’amateur d’art 10, 101 (1956), p. 3 (ill.). Hans Huth, “A Mannerist Judith for the Art Institute,” AIC Quarterly 51, 1 (1957), pp. 2 (ill.), 3. S.V., “Nuovi acquisti all’Art Institute,” Emporium 63 (1957), pp. 185–86 (ill.). Helen Comstock, “A Flemish Mannerist Judith,” Connoisseur 140 (1957), p. 139 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), pp. 214–15. Giorgio T. Faggin, La pittura ad Anversa nel Cinquecento (Florence, 1968), pl. 111. Gert von der Osten and Horst Vey, Painting and Sculpture in Germany and the Netherlands, 1500 to 1600 (Harmondsworth, 1969), p. 198, pl. 183. John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (London, 1970), pp. 255 (ill.), 287. Paul Wescher, “Jan van Hemessen und Jan van Amstel,” Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen, n.s., 12 (1970), pp. 42–43, fig. 6. Jan Bialostocki, “La gamba sinistra della Giuditta: Il quadro di Giorgione nella storia del tema,” in Giorgione e l’umanesimo veneziano, ed. Rodolfo Pallucchini (Florence, 1981), pp. 216–17; trans. and repr. in Jan Bialostocki, The Message of Images: Studies in the History of Art (Vienna, 1988), pp. 126, 261. Burr Wallen, Jan van Hemessen: An Antwerp Painter between Reform and Counter-Reform (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1983), pp. 2, 107–08, 309–10, no. 36, fig. 121. Peter C. Sutton, A Guide to Dutch Art in America (Washington, D.C., and Grand Rapids, Mich., 1986), p. 49, fig. 65. Art Institute of Chicago, Master Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1988), p. 21 (ill.). Robert Genaille, review of Wallen, Jan van Hemessen: An Antwerp Painter between Reform and Counter-Reform, in Revue Belge d’archéologie et d’histoire de l’art 58 (1989), p. 138. Corinna Höper, Katalog der Gemälde des 14. bis 18. Jahrhunderts in der Kunsthalle Bremen (Bremen, 1990), pp. 167–68. Guy Bauman and Walter A. Liedtke, Flemish Paintings in America: A Survey of Early Netherlandish and Flemish Paintings in the Public Collections of North America (Antwerp, 1992), p. 339, no. 264 (ill.). Burr Wallen, “Jan Sanders van Hemessen,” in The Dictionary of Art, vol. 14 (New York, 1996), p. 380, fig. 1. Margarita Stocker, Judith, Sexual Warrior: Women and Power in Western Culture (New Haven, 1998), pp. 18, 112, fig. 13. Andreas Kreul, Doppelgänger: Repliken und “andere Originale” zu Werken aus der Sammlung der Kunsthalle Bremen, exh. cat. (Kunsthalle Bremen, 1999), pp. 18–21, 29, 56 (ill.). James Rondeau, ed., Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago: Highlights of the collection (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2025), 28 (ill.).

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Jan Sanders van Hemessen (Netherlandish, active c. 1519–1556)
    Date
    c. 1540
    Medium
    Oil on panel
    Dimensions
    99.1 × 77.2 cm (39 × 30 3/8 in.); Framed: 119.7 × 97.8 × 6.4 cm (47 1/8 × 38 1/2 × 2 1/2 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    oil on panel
    Style
    16th Century
    Place
    Netherlands
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Wirt D. Walker Fund
    Accession no.
    1956.1109

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