id: 143261
accession number: 1967.20
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Landscape with Saint John the Baptist, c. 1540. Herri met de Bles (Flemish, 1510–1572). Oil on wood; framed: 43.2 x 54.9 x 6.4 cm (17 x 21 5/8 x 2 1/2 in.); unframed: 30.5 x 42.3 cm (12 x 16 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1967.20
title: Landscape with Saint John the Baptist
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creation date: c. 1540
creation date earliest: 1535
creation date latest: 1545
current location: 118 Italian Renaissance
creditline: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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culture: Flanders
technique: oil on wood
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: P - Netherlandish-Flemish
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Herri met de Bles (Flemish, 1510–1572) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 43.2 x 54.9 x 6.4 cm (17 x 21 5/8 x 2 1/2 in.); Unframed: 30.5 x 42.3 cm (12 x 16 5/8 in.)
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inscription: signed with owl sitting on rock in lower right foreground.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1967
opening date: 1967-11-29T05:00:00
Year in Review: 1967. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 29-December 31, 1967).
title: Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century
opening date: 1973-07-10T04:00:00
Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 10-September 2, 1973).
title: Visions of Landscape: East and West
opening date: 1982-02-17T05:00:00
Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).
title: Flemish Landscapes, 1520-1700
opening date: 2003-09-01T00:00:00
Flemish Landscapes, 1520-1700. Kulturstiftung Ruhr Essen, Germany (August 23-November 30, 2003); Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Wien, Austria (organizer) (December 21, 2003-April 12, 2004).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Landscape in Detail. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH: (September 10-November 3, 1996).', 'opening_date': '1996-09-10T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Private collection, Cumberland, England;
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[Herbert Bier, London], sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Gibson, Walter S. "Henri met de Bles: Landscape with St. John the Baptist Preaching." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LV, no. 3 (March 1968): 78-87.
page number: Reproduced: p. 78, fig. 1; Detail: fig. 3 - 6
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 104
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n128
Stechow, Wolfgang. Pieter Bruegel, the Elder. London, United Kingdom: Thames & Hudson, 1970.
page number: Reproduced: p. 114, fig. 73
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Friedländer, Max J. Early Netherlandish Painting: Supplements. Leiden, Netherlands: A.W. Sitjhoff, 1976.
page number: Reproduced: p. 120, vol. 13, no. 110
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 121
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n141
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
page number: Mentioned: 7-9; Reproduced: p. 8
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Bauman, Guy, and Walter A. Liedtke. Flemish Paintings in America: A Survey of Early Netherlandish and Flemish Paintings in the Public Collections of North America. Antwerp, Belgium: Fonds Mercator, 1992.
page number: Reproduced: p. 317, plate 113
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Benesz, Hanna. Die flämische Landschaft 1520-1700: eine Ausstellung der Kulturstiftung Ruhr Essen und des Kunsthistorischen Museums Wien. Lingen, Germany: Luca, 2003.
page number: Reproduced: p. 60-61, no. 8
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Büttner, Nils, and Russell Stockman. Landscape Painting: A History. New York, NY: Abbeville Press Publishers, 2006.
page number: Reproduced: p. 105, fig. 45
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Silver, Larry, and Pieter Bruegel. Pieter Bruegel. New York, NY: Abbeville Press Publishers, 2011.
page number: Reproduced: p. 271, fig. 228
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Weemans, Michel. Herri Met de Bles: les ruses du paysage au temps de Bruegel et d'Érasme. Paris, France: Hazan, 2013.
page number: Reproduced: p. 21, fig. 10; Mentioned: p. 126-132
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IMAGES
web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1967.20/1967.20_web.jpg
print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1967.20/1967.20_print.jpg
full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1967.20/1967.20_full.tif