About the Artwork
Bull in a City Street
ca. 1670
Adriaen van de Velde (Artist) Dutch, 1636-1672 Jan van der Heyden (Artist) Dutch, 1637-1712
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 12 3/8 × 15 7/8 inches (31.4 × 40.3 cm) Framed: 19 3/4 × 23 × 2 3/4 inches (50.2 × 58.4 × 7 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of Anna Scripps Whitcomb
38.31
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
1712, by descent to the artist's widow (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
1825, collection of Otto Willem Johan Berg (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
July 7, 1825, auctioned by (de Vries...Roos, Amsterdam, Netherlands), lot 48
July 7, 1825, purchased by Van den Bergh. 1834-1844, collection of Jeremiah Harman, Esq. (Higham-House, Woodford, England)
May 17-18, 1844, auctioned by (Christie's, London, England), lot 98
May 17-18, 1844, purchased by Norton. 1853, collection of Thomas French (London, England)
May 12, 1855, auctioned by (Christie's, London, England), lot 58
May 12, 1855, purchased by Gritten. ca. 1870-until at least 1909, collection of William Tilden Blodgett (New York, New York, USA)
by descent, collection of Eleanor E. Blodgett (New York, New York, USA). (William H. Thomson Gallery, Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1938-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA) with funds from Edgar and Anna Scripps Whitcomb.
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Smith, John. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, vol. 5. London, 1834, p. 402, no. 109.
Valentiner, W.R. The Hudson-Fulton Celebration: Catalogue of an Exhibition Held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 1. Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1909, p. 46, no. 45 (ill.).
Bredius, A. "De Nalatenschap van Jan van der Heyden's Weduwe," Oud Holland 30, no. 3 (1912): pp. 129-151, p. 133 ["In de Klyne Sy Kamer: 2. een Os en Hond van A. van de Velde, f. 60”].
Hofstede de Groot, C. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. 8. London, 1927, pp. 335-336, no. 18.
Richardson, E. P. "A Painting by Jan van der Heyden and Adriaen van de Velde." Bulletin of the DIA 19, no. 3 (December 1939): pp. 24-27, (ill.).
Weltkunst, vol. 14, no. 13/14 (1940): p. 6.
Richardson, E. P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings: The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1944, pp. 60, 170, no. 563 (ill.).
Richardson, E.P. Catalogue of the Paintings and Sculpture Given by Edgar B. Whitcomb and Anna Scripps Whitcomb to the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1954, p. 36-37 (ill.).
Wagner, Helga. Jan van der Heyden 1637-1712. Amsterdam and Haarlem, 1971, p. 112, no. 210 (ill.).
Opkomst en bloei van het Noordnederlandse stadsgezicht in de 17 de eeuw [The Dutch City Scape in the 17th Century and its Sources]. Exh. cat., Amsterdams Historisch Museum and Art Gallery of Ontario. Amsterdam, 1977, pp. 216-217, no. 113 (ill.).
Vries, Lyckle de. Jan van der Heyden. Amsterdam, 1984, p. 24 (ill.).
Boschma, C. et. al. Meesterlijk Vee, Nederlandse veeschilders 1600-1900. Zwolle, 1988, pp. 12, pl. 2 (ill.), 267.
Keyes, George S. et al. Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 104-107, no. 41 (ill.).
Sutton, Peter C. Jan van der Heyden (1637–1712). Exh. cat., Bruce Museum. New Haven, 2006, pp. 168-169, no. 25 (ill.).
Smith, David R. "Jan van der Heyden's urban prose," Word & Image 26, no. 1 (January-March 2010): pp. 83-99, pp. 85-86 (ill.), 89, 92.
Kettering, Alison. “After Life: Rembrandt’s Slaughtered Ox,” Artibus et Historiae 79 (2019): pp. 267-286, p. 275, (fig. 8), 284, note 57 (ill.).
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Jan van der Heyden; Adriaen van de Velde, Bull in a City Street, ca. 1670, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Anna Scripps Whitcomb, 38.31.
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