The Ford and Halt of the Travelers

ca. 1650

Jan Dirksz Both Dutch, ca. 1618-1652

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Dutch Golden Age, Level 3, South Wing

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Title The Ford and Halt of the Travelers

Artwork Date ca. 1650

Artist Jan Dirksz Both

Life Dates ca. 1618-1652

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Dutch

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 41 5/8 × 52 inches (105.7 × 132.1 cm) Framed: 52 3/4 × 62 3/4 × 3 5/8 inches (134 × 159.4 × 9.2 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Mrs. William D. Vogel in memory of her father, Ralph Harman Booth

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 54.441

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Signed Signed, lower left corner: Both

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Provenance

1777, John Astley (London, England)

1777, sold in (London, England) auction J. Astley [for 187-06-00]

before 1786-1795, (Noel Joseph Desenfans, London, England)

1802, sold in (London, England) auction N. Desenfans [for 115-10-00]

1802-after 1854, J.J. Martin (Ham Court, Upton on the Severn, Worcestershire, England)

by descent to G. Martin (Ham Court, Upton on the Severn, Worcestershire, England)

by descent to E. Bromley Mortin (Ham Court, Upton on the Severn, Worcestershire, England)

December 4, 1925, sold by (Christie's, London, England) auction E. Bromley Martin, lot 9 [for 178-10-00]

1925, purchased by (Horace Buttery, London, England)

Ralph Harman Booth (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

by descent to Mrs. William D. Vogel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)

1954-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Smith, J. Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 6. London, 1829, no. 29.

Waagen, G. Treasures of Art in Great Britain, vol. 3. London, 1854-1857, p. 224.

Exh. cat., British Institution. London, 1850, no. 43.

Exh. cat., British Institution. London, 1862, cat. 10.

Graves. 1913, vol. 1, p. 85.

Hofstede de Groot, C. Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. 9. London, 1927, no. 78. [German edition, p. 444, no. 78.]

Ninth Loan Exhibition of Dutch Genre and Landscape Painting of the Seventeenth Century. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1929, p. xii, cat. 8.

Richardson, E.P. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, no. 430.

Stechow, W. "Jan Both and Dutch Italianate Landscape Painting." Magazine of Art (March 1953) pp. 131-136, (ill.) p. 131.

Bulletin of the DIA 34, no. 1 (1954-1955): p. 11, (ill.) p. 10.

"A Dutch Seventeenth Century Landscape." Connoisseur 135 (June 1955) p. 283 (ill.).

Burke, J. Jan Both. New York, 1976, p.193, no. 19 (fig. 19).

Masterpieces from The Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Bunkamura Museum of Art, et al. Tokyo, 1989, pp. 60, 207-208, cat. 28 (ill.).

Great Dutch Paintings from America. Exh. cat., Mauritshuis, et al. The Hague, 1990, pp. 180-185, cat. 11 (ill.).

Keyes, George S. et al. Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 38–39, no. 12 (ill.).

Keyes, G.S. "A Brief History of the European Paintings Collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts with a Focus on the Dutch School." in the catalogue for The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF). Maastricht, 2005, pp. 10-15, pp. 14-15. [incorrectly states that it entered the collection in the 1960s.]

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Jan Dirksz Both, The Ford and Halt of the Travelers, ca. 1650, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. William D. Vogel in memory of her father, Ralph Harman Booth, 54.441.