Christ in the Storm

Provenance

Possilby sale J.M. Cok, Amsterdam, December 16, 1771, lot 167 for 90 florins to Van der Schley [see C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. 6, 1916, p. 82, no. 103a]. Sale Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, September 1, 1934, lot 1911 (pl. 65). Hans Schaeffer Galleries, New York; sold to Charles Worcester, December 30, 1940 [receipt in curatorial files]; given to the Art Institute, 1941.

Exhibition history

New York, Duveen Galleries, Paintings by Great Masters of the Seventeenth Century, October-November 1942, cat. 42 (ill.).

Publications

L.G.S., “Forthcoming Sales,” (Fischer, Lucerne), Burlington Magazine 65 (August 1934) p. xiii. “Fischer Gallery in Lucerne Offers Fine Auction Series,” Art News 32 (18 August 1934) pp. 7, 11 (ill.). Advertisement, The Art News 32, no. 39 (August 18, 1934). The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1941 (Chicago,1941), p. 11. The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago,1961), p. 366.

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

Quick Overview

Artist: Heinrich Jansen (Danish, 1625–1667)
Date: c. 1650
Medium: Oil on panel
Dimensions: 82 × 118.8 cm (32 1/4 × 46 3/4 in.); Framed: 91.2 × 125.8 × 5.1 cm (35 7/8 × 49 1/2 × 2 in.)
Type: Painting
Classification: oil on panel
Style: 17th Century
Place: Denmark
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Credit line: Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
Accession no.: 1941.1

Open-access museum record · AT-00000962