id:			147447
accession number:	1973.185
share license status:	CC0
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updated:		2025-03-15 11:04:46.607000

Portrait of a Woman, possibly Elizabeth Boothby, 1619. Cornelis Jonson (called Jonson van Ceulen) (British, 1593–1661). Oil on wood; framed: 93.5 x 78 x 5 cm (36 13/16 x 30 11/16 x 1 15/16 in.); unframed: 65.7 x 56 cm (25 7/8 x 22 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin 1973.185

title:				Portrait of a Woman, possibly Elizabeth Boothby
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creation date:			1619
creation date earliest:		1619
creation date latest:		1619
current location:		213 Dutch Painting
creditline:			Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin
copyright:			

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culture:	England, 17th century
technique:	oil on wood
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	P - British before 1800
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Cornelis Jonson (called Jonson van Ceulen) (British, 1593–1661)  - artist

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measurements: Framed: 93.5 x 78 x 5 cm (36 13/16 x 30 11/16 x 1 15/16 in.); Unframed: 65.7 x 56 cm (25 7/8 x 22 1/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Signed lower right: "JC fecit. / 1619" [JC in monogram]
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	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1973
	opening date:   1974-01-30T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1973</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-March 17, 1974).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	E. C. Knight, London (sale: Christie's, London, 29 Jan. 1917, no. 45, evidently bought in by family for 80 Gns.)
	date: By 1917
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	Colonel G. M. Knight, consigned to Christie's, London, in 1947
	date: By 1947
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	(Christie's, London, 17 Oct. 1947, no. 47, sold to Goldblatt for 90 Gns.)
	date: 1947
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	Goldblatt
	date: 1947 - ?
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	Central Picture Galleries, New York, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin
	date: By 1971
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	Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1973.
	date: 1971 - 1973
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1973 -
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	
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	Finberg, Alexander J. "A Chronological List of Portraits by Cornelis Johnson or Jonson." <em>The Walpole Society </em>10 (1921-22): 7, p. III
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 7; Reproduced: pl. III
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	Whitworth Art Gallery. <em>The Age of Shakespeare</em>. Manchester: Whitworh Art Gallery, 1964.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 24
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	"The Year in Review for 1973." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 61, no. 2 (1974): 31-78.
	page number: 	Referenced: cat. no. 38, p. 74, Reproduced: p. 43
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152513.

	Lurie, Ann Tzeutschler, and William S. Talbot. "Annual Report for 1973: Paintings." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>61 no. 6 (June 1974): 186-187
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 186; Reproduced: p. 187
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	Christie, Manson &amp; Woods. Important English Pictures. 1974.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 56, lot no. 165
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	Christie, Manson &amp; Woods. Important English Pictures. 1975.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 32, lot no. 81
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	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. 169
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n189

	<em>The Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue of Paintings</em>. Part 3: <em>European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries.</em> Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 195-197; reproduced: p. 196
	url:		

	Chong, Alan. <em>European &amp; American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue</em>. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 116
	url:		

	Karen Hearn, Edward Town, and Jessica David. <em>Cornelius Johnson, 1593-1661: Painter to King &amp; Country</em>. London: The Weiss Gallery, 2016.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 20, 38
	url:		

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