The Last Judgment

c. 1525

Jan Provost Netherlandish, ca. 1465 - 1529 and 1532

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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

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Title The Last Judgment

Artwork Date c. 1525

Artist Jan Provost

Life Dates ca. 1465 - 1529 and 1532

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. Netherlandish

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 oak panel

Dimensions Unframed: 22 3/4 × 23 7/8 inches (57.8 × 60.6 cm) Framed: 29 5/8 × 30 9/16 × 3 inches (75.3 × 77.6 × 7.6 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of James E. Scripps

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. 89.35

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King Louis Philippe I (France)

C.S. Nieuwenhuys (Brussels, Belgium)

1883, John Nieuwenhuys (Brussels, Belgium)

May 4, 1883, sold by (Englebert & Henri Le Roy, Brussels, Belgium) auction J. Nieuwenhuys, lot 1 [as Jérome Van Aeken e. g. Hieronymus Bosch]

1883-1887, purchased and sold by (Bourgeois Frères, Paris, France) [purchased for Belgian frs 6,000]

November 22, 1887, purchased by James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1888-present, git to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Catalogue of the Scripps Collection. Detroit, 1889, no. 15. [as Jerome Bos or Bosche.]

"The Scripps Old Masters," The Collector 2, no. 13 (May 1, 1891): pp. 149-152, p. 149 [as by Jerome Bosche].

Scripps, James E. Handbook of the Paintings Ancient and Modern Belonging to the Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1895, pp. 12-13.

Detroit Museum of Art Handbook of Paintings by the Old Masters. Detroit, 1910, p. 21, no. 16.

Bredius, A. Bulletin of the Detroit Museum of Art 8, no. 4 (October 1914): p. 57 (ill.). [as Engelbrechtsen].

Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Contemporary Arts and Crafts. Detroit, 1920, p. 51, no. 40. [as Cornelis Engelbrechtsz.]

Conway, M. The Van Eycks and Their Followers. London, 1921, pp. 451-452.

Friedländer, M. J. Von Eyck bis Bruegel, 2nd ed. Berlin, 1921, pp. 119-120, 197.

Winkler, F. Die Altniederländische Malerei. 1924, p 142 (ill.).

Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 172 (ill.).

Bulletin of the DIA 13, no. 4 (1932): p. 43.

Friedländer, M. J. Die Altniederländische Malerei, vol. IX. Berlin, 1934, p. 148, no. 157.

Richardson, E.P. Flemish Painting of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. Detroit, 1936 (fig. 7). [as Jan Provoost.]

Heil, W. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture Illustrated. Detroit, 1937, p. 87.

Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 105, no. 172.

Holbein and his Contemporaries. Exh. cat., John Herron Institute. Indianapolis, 1950, cat. 63 (ill.).

Flight: Fantasy, Fact, Faith. Exh. cat., Dayton Art Institute. Dayton, 1953, cat. 95.

Cummings, Frederick .J. and Charles H. Elam. Detroit Institute of Arts Illustrated Handbook. Detroit, 1971, p. 86.

Friedländer, M.J. Early Netherlandish Painting, vol. 9, part 2. Leiden and Brussels, 1973, pp. 87, 114, no. 157, pl. 171.

Harbison, C. The Last Judgment in Sixteenth Century Northern Europe: A Study of the Relation Between Art and the Reformation. New York and London, 1976, p. 4, cat. 74.

Corwin, N.A. "The Fire Landscape: Its Sources and Its Development from Bosch through Jan Brueghel I, with Special Emphasis on the Mid-Sixteenth Century Bosch 'Revival.'" Ph.D. diss., University of Washington, Seattle, 1976, no. 16, pp. 206-207, pl. 41.

Cummings, Frederick J., ed. Selected Works from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1979, pp. 69, 95, no. 66 (ill.).

Unverfehrt, Gerd. Hieronymus Bosch: die Rezeption seiner Kunst im fruehen 16. Jh. Berlin, 1980, pp. 216-217, 274 (ill.) 208.

Bauman, G.C., and W. Liedtke. Flemish Paintings in America. Antwerp, 1992, p. 356, no. 373 (ill.).

Spronk, R. "Tracing the Making of Jan Provoost's Last Judgment through Technical Examinations and Digital Imaging." Bulletin of the DIA 72, no. 1/2 (1998): 66-79 (ill.).

Die Sammlungen der Hamburger Kunsthalle. Vol. II, Die Niederländischen Gemälde 1500-1800. Hamburg, 2001, pp. 215-216, cited under inv. 323.

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