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Landscape with Tournament and Hunters
Provenance
R. Sabelsky, Saint Petersburg [according to the catalogue of the Roerich sale in 1930 cited below]. Roerich Museum, New York, by 1927 [according to the catalogue of the Roerich sale]; sold, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, Mar. 27–28, 1930, no. 128. George F. Harding, Jr. (d. 1939), Chicago; bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago; ownership transferred to the Art Institute, 1982; accessioned, 1990.
Exhibition history
New York, Corona Mundi International Art Center (Roerich Museum), Exhibition of Old Masters, 1927, no. 1, as Vinckboons. Art Institute of Chicago, On the Road to Italy: Early Paintings by Dutch Renaissance Master Jan van Scorel, 1998 (no cat.).
Publications
Friedrich Winkler, “Jan Scorel oder “Zuan Fiamengo,” Oud Holland 48 (1931), p. 176, fig. 2. M[olly] F[aries], in Fiamminghi a Roma, 1508–1608, exh. cat., Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, and Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, 1995, p. 255, under no. 179. Molly Faries and Martha Wolff, “Landscape in the Early Paint ings of Jan van Scorel,” Burlington Magazine 138 (1996), pp. 724–33, figs. 2, 5, 17, 18. Molly Faries, “Scorel, Jan van,” in Dictionary of Art, vol. 28, 1996, p. 216. Monika Anne Schmitter, “7e Display of Distinction: Art Collecting and Social Status in Early Sixteenth-Century Venice,” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1997, pp. 69, 76. Molly Faries, “Jan van Scorel’s Jerusalem Landscapes,” in In Detail: New Studies of Northern Renaissance Art in Honor of Walter S. Gibson, ed. Laurinda S. Dixon, Turnhout, 1998, pp. 114–16, 128, 131, fig. 2. Jill Dunkerton, “North and South: Painting Techniques in Venice,” in Renaissance Venice and the North: Crosscurrents in the Time of Bellini, Dürer and Titian, exh. cat., ed. Bernard Aikema and Beverly Louise Brown, Venice, Palazzo Grassi, 1999, p. 102. Beverly Louise Brown, in Renaissance Venice and the North, p. 462, under no. 125. Molly Faries, “Another New Early Jan van Scorel,” in Polyptiek: Een veelluik van Groninger bijdragen aan de kunstgeschiedenis, ed. Henk Th. van Veen et al., Zwolle, 2002, pp. 42–44, 47, 221–22. Martha Wolff in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 297-301, ill.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jan van Scorel (Netherlandish, 1495-1562)
- Date
- 1519–20
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 57.8 × 138.5 cm (22 3/4 × 54 9/16 in.); Framed: 72.4 × 152.1 × 9.6 cm (28 1/2 × 59 7/8 × 3 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- 16th Century
- Place
- Netherlands
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- George F. Harding Collection
- Accession no.
- 1990.560
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Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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