id: 149768 accession number: 1979.80 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1979.80 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:44.546000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1445 creation date earliest: 1440 creation date latest: 1450 current location: 112 Northern Renaissance creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: Flanders, Bruges technique: oil on panel department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Medieval Art type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Petrus Christus (Netherlandish, c. 1410–1475/76) - artist --- 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- 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. --- 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'} --- PROVENANCE Herederos de John Frere (1740-1807), Royal Hall, Norfolk, England date: footnotes: citations: (E.V. Thaw, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1979 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1979- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- 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 url: 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 url: Ainsworth, Maryan W., Petrus Christus, and Maximiliaan P. J. Martens. Petrus Christus: Renaissance Master of Bruges. 1994. page number: Cat. No. 3 url: Hand, John Oliver. "Petrus Christus at the Metropolitan" Apollo (October 1994). page number: p. 50 url: 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 url: Luber, Katherine Crawford. "Recognizing Van Eyck". Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin 91 (1998). page number: fig. 18, p. 18, # 6, p. 46 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: "Van Eyck: et la Diffusion de L'Art Flamand." Dossier de Art, no. 119 (2005). page number: p. 53 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.80/1979.80_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.80/1979.80_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.80/1979.80_full.tif