Adoration of the Magi

Jean Jouvenet French, 1649-1717
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European, Level 2, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Adoration of the Magi

between 1700 and 1710

Jean Jouvenet

1649-1717

French

Unknown

Oil on canvas

Unframed: 52 1/8 × 39 inches (132.4 × 99.1 cm) Framed: 63 7/8 × 49 1/8 × 4 1/4 inches (162.2 × 124.8 × 10.8 cm)

Paintings

European Painting

Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund

78.67

This work is in the public domain.

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Provenance

April 11-12, 1836, sale Collection M.F. de N. (Hotel des Ventes Mobilières, Paris, France) lot 61

until 1910, Collection J.R. Ollerenshaw

(Galerie Abels, Cologne, Germany)

Collection Georg Schaefer (Schweinfurt, Germany)

July 14, 1978, auction of Georg Schaefer collection (Christie's, London, England) lot 138 (pl. 48) [as Adoration of the Shepherds by Noel Nicolas Coypel]

1978, (Julius Weitzner, London, England)

1978-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA) [a letter to the DIA by Antoine Schnapper indicates the painting may have the following earlier provenance] 1764, Collection la Live de Jully (Paris, France)

May 2-4, 1770, auction of the Collection la Live de Jully (Remy, France) lot 47 (L.1838--RKD, FARL)

Collection Prince de Conti (Paris, France)

April 8-June 6, 1777, auction of collection Prince de Conti (Remy, France) (L2671--RKD, FARL)

Collection Chaise (Paris, France)

February 4, 1791, auction (Lebrun C.P.: Bouleau, Paris, France) lot 55 (L4664)

Collection La Bas

May 10, 1793, auction (Paillet, Paris, France) lot 38 (L5058).

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Published References

Alte Meister. Exh. cat., Galerie Abels. Cologne, 1953, p. 1 (ill.).

Weltkunst XXIII, 1 (January 1953): p. 2 (ill.).

Schnapper, A. Jean Jouvenet 1644-1717 et la peinture d'histoire à Paris. Paris, 1974, pp. 202-203, no. 82. [cited the engraving by Alexis Loir before 1705]

In Quest of Excellence. Exh. cat., Center for the Fine Arts. Miami, Florida, 1984, p. 93, no. 83 (ill.).

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Jean Jouvenet, Adoration of the Magi, between 1700 and 1710, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 78.67.

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