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Landscape with Venus and Adonis

Landscape with Venus and Adonis

1580s
(Netherlandish, 1544–1607)
Netherlands, 16th century
oil on copper
Framed: 48.3 x 64.5 x 7 cm (19 x 25 3/8 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 37.8 x 53.6 cm (14 7/8 x 21 1/8 in.)
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1962.293
Location: 118 Italian Renaissance

Description

Venus, the goddess of love, is unsuccessful in dissuading her mortal lover Adonis from hunting the boar that would eventually kill him. The artist nestles this story in the foreground of an expansive view with Germanic architecture, rather than a classical setting. Woodlands were relatively new subjects in European painting and this work points toward the full-blown forested landscapes of the 1600s.
  • Possibly Gillis van Coninxloo the Elder (inventory of January 19, 1607);
    Possibly Jacques Kina (N. de Roever, "De Coninxloo's," Oud Holland, III, 1885,42);
    Possibly Anna de Schot (inventory of April 21, 1663; see J. Denuce, De Antwerpsche 'Konst-kamers' Inventarissen van Kunstverzamelingen te Antwerpen in de 16 en 17 Eeuwen, II, Amsterdam, 1932,238);
    Henry Doetsch, London, 1895;
    (Christie's, London, June 22-25,1895, no. 282, illus.);
    M. Greene, London, 1932;
    Harry Quilter, London, 1961;
    [F. Kleinberger, New York], sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1962.
  • Thieme, Ulrich, Felix Becker, Fred. C. Willis, and Hans Vollmer. Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Leipzig, Germany: W. Engelmann, 1907. Reproduced: p. 303, vol. 7
    Lurie, Ann Tzeutschler. "A landscape with Venus and Adonis." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art L, no. 11 (November, 1963): 252-258. Reproduced: p. 252, Detail: fig. 1,,3,5,6,9
    Saisselin,R.G. "Art in an Imitation of Nature." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LII, no. 2 (February, 1965): 34-44. Mentioned: p. 35
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 104 archive.org
    Gibson, Walter S. "Herri met de Bles: Landscape with St. John the Baptist Preaching." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LV, no. 3 (March, 1968): 76-87. Reproduced: p. 86, fig. 13
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 104 archive.org
    Plietzsch, Eduard. Die Frankenthaler Maler; ein Beitrag zur Entwickelungsgeschichte der niederländischen Landschaftsmalerei. Soest, Germany: Davaco, 1972. Reproduced: p. 50, no. 5, pl. III
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 122 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. Mentioned: p. 9-11; Reproduced: p. 10
    Thiery, Yvonne. Les peintres flamands de paysage au XVIIe siècle: des précurseurs à Rubens. Bruxelles, Belgique: Lefèbvre et Gillet, 1988.
    Huys Janssen, Paul, and Peter C. Sutton. The Hoogsteder Exhibition of Dutch Landscapes. The Hague, Netherlands: Hoogsteder & Hoogsteder, 1991. Reproduced: p. 35, fig. 3
    Bauman, Guy, and Walter A. Liedtke. Flemish Paintings in America: A Survey of Early Netherlandish and Flemish Paintings in the Public Collections of North America. Antwerp, Belgium: Fonds Mercator, 1992. Reproduced: p. 324, plate 158
    Papenbrock, Martin. Landschaften des Exils: Gillis van Coninxloo und die Frankenthaler Maler. Köln, Germany: Böhlau, 2001. Abb. 24
    Benesz, Hanna. Die flämische Landschaft 1520-1700: eine Ausstellung der Kulturstiftung Ruhr Essen und des Kunsthistorischen Museums Wien. Lingen, Germany: Luca, 2003. Reproduced: p. 124-125, no. 39
    Jonckheere, Koenraad, Claire Baisier, and Maximiliaan P. J. Martens. Apelles achterna: Renaissancetekeningen uit de Zuidelijke Nederlanden uit Antwerpse privécollecties. Kontich: BAI voor het Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerpen, 2014. Reproduced: p. 77
  • CMA, 1996: "Landscape in Detail," September 10-Novevmber 3, 1996, no catalogue
    Flemish Landscapes, 1520-1700. Kulturstiftung Ruhr Essen, Germany (August 23-November 30, 2003); Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Wien, Austria (organizer) (December 21, 2003-April 12, 2004).
    Kulturstiftung Ruhr, Villa Hügel, Essen (8/23/2003 - 11/30/2003) and Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien (12/21/2003 - 4/12/2004): "Flemish Landscapes, 1520-1700", exh. cat. no. 39, p. 124-125.
    Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 10-September 2, 1973).
    CMA, 1963: "Year in Review 1963," Bull., L (Dec. 1963), p. 293, no. 86.
    Year in Review (1963). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 27, 1963-January 5, 1964).
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