id:			145148
accession number:	1970.32
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1970.32
updated:		2025-02-14 13:29:53.807000

The Betrayal of Christ, late 1650s. Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593–1678). Oil on canvas; framed: 249 x 271.5 x 8 cm (98 1/16 x 106 7/8 x 3 1/8 in.); unframed: 225.5 x 246.3 cm (88 3/4 x 96 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 1970.32

title:				The Betrayal of Christ
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creation date:			late 1650s
creation date earliest:		1655
creation date latest:		1659
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creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
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culture:	Flanders
technique:	oil on canvas
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	P - Netherlandish-Flemish
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593–1678)  - artist

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measurements: Framed: 249 x 271.5 x 8 cm (98 1/16 x 106 7/8 x 3 1/8 in.); Unframed: 225.5 x 246.3 cm (88 3/4 x 96 15/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1970
	opening date:   1971-02-10T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1970</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-March 7, 1971).

	title:		Jacob Jordaens:  L'Arrestation du Christ
	opening date:   1997-02-22T00:00:00
	<i>Jacob Jordaens:  L'Arrestation du Christ</i>. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes (organizer) (February 22-May 4, 1997).

	title:		The Night
	opening date:   1998-11-01T00:00:00
	<i>The Night</i>. Haus der Kunst, Munich (organizer) (November 1, 1998-February 17, 1999).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'The Night, Haus der Kunst, Munich, November 1, 1998- February 7, 1999.', 'opening_date': '1998-11-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Juergen Ovens
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	, upon his death, held in trust by the estate, 1691;
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	Estate of Juergen Ovens, 1691;
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	Possibly Count Otto Thott (GaunØ Castle, Denmark), (died 1785), by inheritance to Holger Reedtz, grandson of Otto Thott's maternal uncle, who took the name Reedtz-Thott in honor of his benefactor, Count Otto Thott, who had no male heirs;
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	Holger Reedtz-Thott (died 1797), by inheritance to Baron Otto Reedtz-Thott;
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	Otto Reedtz-Thott (doed 1862), by inheritance to Baron Kjeld Thor Tage Otto Reedtz-Thott;
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	Baron Kjeld Thor Tage Otto Reedtz-Thott (died 1923), by inheritance to Baron Otto Reedtz-Thott;
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	Baron Otto Reedtz-Thott (died 1927), by inheritance to Baron Axel Reedtz-Thott;
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	Baron Axel Reedtz-Thott (GaunØ Castle, Denmark) (sold, Sotheby's, London, July 10, 1968, no. 78); Agnew & Sons, London;
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	Pinakos, Inc., New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1970.
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CITATIONS

	Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1970." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 58, no. 2 (1971): 22-71.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p.22
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25152361

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 155
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n175

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 19-21; Reproduced: p. 19
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	<em>L'Arrestation du Christ de Jordaens: anatomie d'un chef-d'œuvre</em>. Valenciennes: Musée des beaux-arts de Valenciennes, 1997.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 60; Reproduced: p. 61
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	Meier, Esther. "Ruben's Neid und Judas' Verrat - Jacob Jordaens 'Vita in der Teutschen Academie,"  In <em>Reframing Jordaens: Pictor doctus, Techniken, Werkstattpraxis/Reframing Jordaens: Pictor doctus, techniques, workshop practice</em>, 16-27. . Justus Lange, Birgit Ulrike Münch, and Anne Harmssen. Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag GmbH &amp; Co. KG  2018.
	page number: 	Reproduced; p. 20, abb. 2
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