Landscape with a Carriage Hold-Up

ca. between 1615 and 1625

Jacob Jacobsz van Geel Dutch, between 1584 and 1585-1638 or later

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Dutch Golden Age, Level 3, South Wing

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Title Landscape with a Carriage Hold-Up

Artwork Date ca. between 1615 and 1625

Artist Jacob Jacobsz van Geel

Life Dates between 1584 and 1585-1638 or later

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 copper panel

Dimensions Unframed: 9 5/8 × 18 inches (24.4 × 45.7 cm) Framed: 13 1/2 × 22 × 1 3/4 inches (34.3 × 55.9 × 4.4 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund

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. 38.15

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Signed Signed, at bottom center: jacob v gheel

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Provenance

1937-1938, (Gebr. Douwes Galleries, Amsterdam, Netherlands)

1938-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

"Detroit: Season's Acquisitions." Art News 36 (July 1938): pp. 12, 22.

Richardson, E.P. "From Old Bruegel to Van Goyen." Art Quarterly 1, no. 3 (1938) pp. 181-203 (fig. 8).

Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 50, no. 537.

The Young Rembrandt and his Times. Exh. cat., John Heron Art Institute and Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego. Indianapolis and San Diego, 1958, cat. 71 (ill.).

Bol, L.J. "Een Middelburgse Brueghel-groep VI Jacob Jacobsz. van Geel (1584\1585-1638 of later)." Oud Holland 72 (1957): pp. 20-40, pp. 21, 23, 29, 35, cat. 1, pl. 1. [as ca. 1615.]

Bol, L.J. Holländische Maler des 17. Jahrhunderts nahe den grossen Meistern. Braunschweig, 1969, p. 111, pl. 93.

Briels, J. Vlaamse Schilders in de Noordelijke Nederlanden in het begin van de Gouden Eeuw 1585-1630.Haarlem and Antwerp, 1987, pp. 327, 330, pl. 417. [ca. 1615.]

Wissman, F.W. European Vistas: Cultural Landscapes. Detroit, 2000, pp. 104-105 (ill.).

Liedtke, W. Vermeer and the Delft School. Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art and National Gallery. New York and London, 2001, pp. 84-85 (fig. 96). [as ca. 1610.]

Keyes, George S. et al. Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 78-79, no. 28 (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.

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Jacob Jacobsz van Geel, Landscape with a Carriage Hold-Up, ca. between 1615 and 1625, oil on copper panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 38.15.