Two Jesters, between 1550 and 1575

  • Flemish

Oil on oak panel

  • 37 3/4 × 33 1/4 × 3 inches (95.9 × 84.5 × 7.6 cm) Unframed: 25 3/4 × 21 1/8 × 7/8 inches (65.4 × 53.7 × 2.2 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund

39.1

1935, (art market, Paris, France)

1938, Alexander Popoff (Paris)

(Leo Grinberg, dealer/agent for Popoff, New York, New York, USA)

1939-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Friedländer, M.J. Altniederländische Malerei, vol. 13. Leiden, 1936, pp. 57-58, 151, no. 109, pl. 29 [as Lambert Lombard.] Richardson, E.P. "Two Court Fools by Frans Floris." Bulletin of the DIA 18, no. 8 (1939) pp. 2-4 (cover ill.). [as by Floris.] McVan, A.J. "Spanish Dwarfs." NOTES HISPANIC 2 (1942): p. 103 (fig. 5). [as by Floris.] Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 47, no. 531. [as by Frans Floris.] Pictures of Everyday Life: Genre Painting in Europe 1500-1900." Exh. cat., Carnegie Institute. Pittsburgh, 1954, cat. 6. [as by Frans Floris.] Tietze-Conrat, E. Dwarfs and Jesters in Art. London, 1957, p. 101. [as by Floris.] Puyvelde, L. van. La Peinture Flamande au Siècle de Bosch et de Brueghel. Paris, 1962, p. 339. [as by Floris.] Friedländer, M.J. Early Netherlandish Painting, vol. 13. Leiden and Brussels, 1975, p. 83, no. 109, pl. 55. [as by Lombard.] Held, J.S. Flemish and German Paintings of the Seventeenth Century, The Collections of The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1982, pp. 51-53 (ill.). [as Flemish artist(s).] Amsterdam, A. Mak. "Catalogue de Tableaux, Collections Arnold Van Buuren." May 1925, cat. 93, pp. 32. Kubersky-Piredda, Susanne and Salvador Salort-Pons, "Ein Hofnarr als Agent. Zum diplomatischen Geschenkwesen am Hof Philipps II." Materielle Grundlagen der Diplomatie: Schenken, Sammeln und Verhandeln in Spätmittelalter und Früher Neuzeit. Konstanz, 2013, p. 131 (color ill.). Beuzelin, Cécile. “Le Fou, le Nain et le Chein: le Monde à L’Envers à la Cour D’Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle.” Seizième Siècle 12 (2016): pp. 83–111 (ill.).

Flemish, Two Jesters, between 1550 and 1575, oil on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 39.1.