Jan Swart van Groningen
Christ in a Landscape
Artist
Jan Swart van Groningen
Groningen (?) before 1500 – Antwerp (?) about 1560
Title
Christ in a Landscape
Date
About 1530-1540
Materials
Oil on wood
Dimensions
118.8 x 93.5 cm
Credits
Purchase, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts' Volunteer Association Fund, inv. 1996.15
Collection
Western Art
Glasgow, John Bell (sold London, Christie’s, 19-25 June 1881, No. 774 to Rivers; as “Saint John Holding a Book in a Landscape” by Cesare da Sesto);
New York, art market (in 1948);
Auction London, Sotheby’s, 6 July 1983, No. 12 (as “Saint John the Baptist in a Fantastic Landscape”);
New York, dealer Richard L. Feigen & Co.
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