id: 149768
accession number: 1979.80
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Saint John the Baptist in a Landscape, c. 1445. Attributed to Petrus Christus (Netherlandish, c. 1410–1475/76). Oil on panel; unframed: 40.2 x 12.5 cm (15 13/16 x 4 15/16 in.); painted surface: 39.6 x 11.5 cm (15 9/16 x 4 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1979.80
title: Saint John the Baptist in a Landscape
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creation date: c. 1445
creation date earliest: 1440
creation date latest: 1450
current location: 112 Northern Renaissance
creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
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culture: Flanders, Bruges
technique: oil on panel
department: Medieval Art
collection: MED - Medieval Art
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Petrus Christus (Netherlandish, c. 1410–1475/76) - artist
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measurements: Unframed: 40.2 x 12.5 cm (15 13/16 x 4 15/16 in.); Painted surface: 39.6 x 11.5 cm (15 9/16 x 4 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1979
opening date: 1980-02-13T05:00:00
Year in Review: 1979. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-March 9, 1980).
title: Recognizing van Eyck
opening date: 1998-04-04T00:00:00
Recognizing van Eyck. Philadelphia Museum of Art (organizer) (April 4-May 31, 1998).
title: The Mediterranean Renaissance. The Movement of Artists and Works of Art Between Italy, France, and Spain in the 15th-century.
opening date: 2001-01-31T00:00:00
The Mediterranean Renaissance. The Movement of Artists and Works of Art Between Italy, France, and Spain in the 15th-century.. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain (organizer) (January 31-May 6, 2001); Museo de Bellas Artes, Valencia, Spain (June 18-September 2, 2001).
title: Jan van Eyck, Early Netherlandish Painting and the South of Europe
opening date: 2002-03-15T00:00:00
Jan van Eyck, Early Netherlandish Painting and the South of Europe. Groeningemuseum, Stedelijke Musea, Brugge, Belgium (March 15-June 30, 2002).
title: Van Eyck: An Optical Revolution
opening date: 2020-02-01T05:00:00
Van Eyck: An Optical Revolution. Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, Ghent, Belgium (organizer) (February 1-April 30, 2020) https://www.mskgent.be/en/exhibitions/van-eyck.
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Petrus Christus, Renaissance Master of Bruges, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (April 11-July 31, 1994).', 'opening_date': '1994-04-11T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Herederos de John Frere (1740-1807), Royal Hall, Norfolk, England
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(E.V. Thaw, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?-1979
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1979-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1979." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 3 (1980)
page number: Cat. No. 7, p. 95
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159667
"La chronique des arts," Gazette des Beaux-Arts XCV, no. 1334 (March 1980).
page number: p. 30, no. 158
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Lurie, Ann Tzeutschler. "A Newly Discovered Eyckian St. John the Baptist in a Landscape." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 4 (1981).
page number: pp. 87-109
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159721
"A Technical Note." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 4 (1981)
page number: pp. 110-119
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159722
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: Fonds Mercator, 1992.
page number: p. 323, fig. 151
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Ainsworth, Maryan W., Petrus Christus, and Maximiliaan P. J. Martens. Petrus Christus: Renaissance Master of Bruges. 1994.
page number: Cat. No. 3
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Hand, John Oliver. "Petrus Christus at the Metropolitan" Apollo (October 1994).
page number: p. 50
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Eyck, Jan van, and J. R. J. van Asperen de Boer. Jan Van Eyck: Two Paintings of Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata. 1997.
page number: pp. 88-95
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Luber, Katherine Crawford. "Recognizing Van Eyck". Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin 91 (1998).
page number: fig. 18, p. 18, # 6, p. 46
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Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, and Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia. The Mediterranean Renaissance: the movement of artists and works of art between Italy, France and Spain in the fifteenth century : press report. [Madrid?]: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2001.
page number: exh. cat. no. 35, pp 285-287
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Benito Domenech, Fernando, and José Gómez Frechina. La clave flamenca en los primitivos valencianos. Valéncia: Generalitat Valenciana, 2001.
page number: fig. 1.3, p. 109
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Natale, Mauro. El Renacimiento mediterráneo: viajes de artistas e itinerarios de obras entre Italia, Francia y España en el siglo XV : Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, del 31 de enero al 6 de mayo de 2001, Valencia Museu de Belles Arts de València, del 18 de mayo al 2 de septiembre de 2001. Madrid: Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2001.
page number: Cat. No. 35, pp. 285-87
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Borchert, Till, and Andreas Beyer. Age of Van Eyck: The Mediterranean World and Early Netherlandish Painting, 1430-1530. Ghent [Belgium]: Ludion, 2002.
page number: Cat. No. 9, fig. 9, p. 15
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Boccardo, Piero, Clario Di Fabio, Philippe Sénéchal, and Giovanni Assereto. Genova e la Francia: opere, artisti, committenti, collezionisti. Cinisello Balsamo (Milano): Silvana, 2003.
page number: p. 82, fig. 7
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"Van Eyck: et la Diffusion de L'Art Flamand." Dossier de Art, no. 119 (2005).
page number: p. 53
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Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 274
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Borchert, Till-Holger. "The Impact of Jan van Eyck's lost lomellini Triptych and his Genoese Patrons." 4 (March 2019) 30-61.
page number: Reproduced: p. 54
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DePoorter, Matthias. "Jan van Eyck's Discovery of Nature." In Van Eyck: An Optical Revolution. Maximiliaan Martens, Till-Holger Borchert, Jan Dumolyn, Johan de Smet, and Frederica Van Dam, 204-235. Gent: Hannibal-MSK, 2020.
page number: Reproduced: P. 215, fig. 8.10
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