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Fragment from Christ Carrying the Cross: Saint John the Evangelist
by Jean Hey
Provenance
M. Guggenheim, Venice, by 1892 [according to receipt in Art Institute Archives; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, June 1892 [receipt cited above.]; by descent to his wife Carrie Hutchinson Ryerson (1859–1937), Chicago, 1932 [Last Will and Testament of Martin A. Ryerson, Died August 11, 1932, copy in Institutional Archives, Art Institute of Chicago]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1937.
Exhibition history
Paris, Galeries nationales, Grand Palais, France 1500: entre Moyen Age et Renaissance, 2010–11, no. 70b. Art Institute of Chicago, Kings, Queens, and Courtiers: Art in Early Renaissance France, Feb. 26-May 30, 2011, cat. 61.
Publications
Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works, with an Index of Places, Oxford, 1932, p. 141; rev. ed., Italian Pictures of the Renaissance:Central Italian and North Italian Schools, vol. 1 (London, 1968), 83. Christian Hornig, Cavazzola (Munich: W. Fink, 1976), 124, no. C4. Martha Wolff, “Reconstitution d’une scène de la Passion peinte par le Maître de Moulins,” Revue de l’art, no. 147 (2005), 58–66, figs. 4–6, 11. Martha Wolff in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 2008), 23-30, ill. Martha Wolff et al., Kings, Queens, and Courtiers: Art in Early Renaissance France (New Haven and London, 2011), 130, ill. Yann Quero, Le Maître de Moulins: Peintre de quatre reines de France (Toulous: Éditions Arkuiris, 2022), 403-21. Bruno Amiot, "Le commanditaire du Saint Maurice de Jean Hey," Revue de l'art, no. 219 (2023), 8-17, fig. 3. Sophie Caron, "Jean Hey: Un Flamand en Bourbonnais," Dossiers de l'Art, no. 334 (Dec. 2025–Jan. 2026): 24–25, (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean Hey (Master of Moulins; Netherlandish, active in France, c. 1480-c.1504)
- Date
- c. 1500
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 27.3 × 20 cm (10 3/4 × 7 7/8 in.); Framed: 48.9 × 66.7 × 5.1 cm (19 1/4 × 26 1/4 × 2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- sixteenth century
- Place
- Netherlands
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Accession no.
- 1937.1000
More by Jean Hey in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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