Jupiter Rebuked by Venus

Provenance

John Gage Predergast Vereker, 5th Viscount Gort (died 1902), Durham; offered for sale by his estate, Christie’s, London, 20 December 1902, lot 115, as Luca Giordano, bought in. Private collection, Ireland. Sold, Sotheby’s, London, 17 November 1982, no. 12, to Patrick Matthiesen, London; sold to the Art Institute, December 1986.

Publications

Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1986–87 (Chicago, 1987), 22–23, 56. Guy C. 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), 341, no. 274. Richie Hofmann, "My Ekphrasis," Nicholas Hall (blog), May 27, 2021, https://www.nicholashall.art/journal/my-ekphrasis/

Quick Overview

Artist: Abraham Janssens (Flemish, c. 1575-1632)
Date: c. 1612
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 197.5 × 237.5 cm (77 3/4 × 93 1/2 in.); Framed: 231.1 × 271.8 × 7.6 cm (91 × 107 × 3 in.)
Type: Painting
Classification: oil on canvas
Style: 17th Century
Place: Flanders
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Credit line: Purchased with funds provided by The Old Masters Society; the Alexander A. McKay Endowment
Accession no.: 1986.996

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