id:			296825
accession number:	2017.54
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2017.54
updated:		2024-03-26 02:01:54.317000

Saint John the Baptist, c. 1500. Attributed to Jan Crocq (Netherlandish, act. 1486–1510). Tonnerre limestone; overall: 163 x 59 x 40 cm (64 3/16 x 23 1/4 x 15 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2017.54

title:				Saint John the Baptist
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creation date:			c. 1500
creation date earliest:		1450
creation date latest:		1510
current location:		110B Late Gothic
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	French, Lorraine, Nancy or Bar-le-Duc
technique:	Tonnerre limestone
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Gothic
type:		Sculpture
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CREATORS

* Jan Crocq (Netherlandish, act. 1486–1510)  - artist
French sculptor, active 1486-1611
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measurements: Overall: 163 x 59 x 40 cm (64 3/16 x 23 1/4 x 15 3/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Recent Acquisitions
	opening date:   2018-03-17T04:00:00
	<i>Recent Acquisitions</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 17-June 7, 2018).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	By repute from the Sainte-Chapelle, Dijon (before 1792)
	date: -1792
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	Mr. E. Ingels, Belgium, late 1800s
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	Madame Francois Flameng , Paris, France
	date: -1919
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	Sale: May 26-27, 1919, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, France, lot 195
	date: May 26-27, 1919
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	(Jacques Seligmann, Paris, France)
	date: 1919-
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	Bela Hein (1883-1931), Paris, sold to Brummer Galleries, New York
	date: -1928
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	Brummer Galleries, New York, NY, sold to The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art
	date: 1928-1933
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	The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, (after 1983 known as The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art), inv. no. 33-69
	date: 1933-1991
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	De-Accessioned by the Nelson-Atkins in 1991; sold at Sotheby’s, New York, 1 June 1991, lot 18
	date: 1991
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	Private collection, Belgium, sold at auction at Sotheby's, London
	date: 1991-2014
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	Sotheby’s, London (July 10, 2014), lot 67
	date: 2014
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	Sam Fogg, London sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 2014-2017
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2017-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Saunier, Charles, "Collection François Flameng" <em>Les Arts</em>. no. 164 (1918).
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	Galerie Georges Petit. <em>Tableaux anciens et modernes; pastels; oeuvres de Ter Borch, J. Boze, J.B.S. Chardin, F. Clouet, Corneille de Lyon, Le Corrège, A.V. Dyck, Guardi, La Tour, Perronneau, Raphael, Rembrandt, Tiepolo, le Tintoret, Vélasquez, etc., etc. </em>1919.
	page number: 	Lot 195
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	William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts. <em>Handbook of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art. </em>Kansas City, Mo: [The Joseph D. Havens Co.], 1933.
	page number: 	p. 72
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	The Brummer Gallery Records. Cloisters (Museum), n.d.
	page number: 	P05733
	url:		https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16028coll9/id/33323

	“The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art”,<em> Art News </em>XXXII, no. 10, 1933
	page number: 	p. 50
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	William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Mo. <em>The William Rockhill Nelson Collection.</em> [Kansas City, Mo.]: [Chas. E. Brown Print. Co.], 1940. .
	page number: 	p. 89, fig. 8
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	Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.<em> The William Rockhill Nelson Collection</em>. Kansas City, Mo: [Chas. E. Brown Print. Co.], 1949.
	page number: 	p. 112
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	Nelson Gallery Foundation.<em> Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts</em>, Kansas City, Missouri. 1959.
	page number: 	p. 54
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	Fliegel, Stephen N. “Acquisition Highlights: Medieval Art.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> vol. 58. no. 2 (March/April 2018): 20.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 20; Mentioned: P. 7, 20.
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	Griswold, William M. “Recent Acquisitions (2013-20) at the Cleveland Museum of Art.” <em>Burlington Magazine </em>163, no. 1414 (January 2021): 93-104.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 94, no. 1; mentioned: P. 93
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	Biro, Yaëlle, Christine E. Brennan, and Christel H. Force. The Brummer Galleries, Paris and New York: Defining Taste from Antiquities to the Avant-Garde. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 350, note 153
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	Gertsman, Elina, and Stephen N. Fliegel. Collectors, Commissioners, Curators: Studies in Medieval Art for Stephen N. Fliegel. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter ; [Kalamazoo, Michigan] : Medieval Institute Publications, 2023.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 147-148, Fig. 8.1.
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