Images

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=E6A17A40ECD6344C0A89EA45CCD53FF4977011B3FEB22EA6D48DF78559AD2D60&s=24247294&se=544011163&v=0&f=2017.54_o2.jpg

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=DE69D0EB1F199EDF9F4BD058CE7FCB5A519F9EC5F137C21F4087E4FB5A65775F&s=24247294&se=544011163&v=0&f=%5C2017.54det01_o2.jpg

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=DE69D0EB1F199EDF6BC0A21AEEB12E61121036579F09664AB8A5B5E93247A9ED&s=24247294&se=544011163&v=0&f=%5C2017.54det02_o2.jpg

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=39CA040F86F669D5A3FACB025643B0F3F74299D4D6A72EDE0AEAF878010926FE&s=24247294&se=544011163&v=0&f=%5C2017.54det03_o2.jpg

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=0E8B608050668C46916FA2D87B331674665A96358D620719E59D0BFB2B3D9C36&s=24247294&se=544011163&v=0&f=%5C2017.54det04_o2.jpg

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=0E8B608050668C46FD9B618ECE9A4AB21A53B76C9B4E87164ADE466A5894E2C3&s=24247294&se=544011163&v=0&f=%5C2017.54det05_o2.jpg

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=107A524F84D769924FBB68B3164413A92DB42CD9467CEEAC477AF42AAEABF33D&s=24247294&se=544011163&v=0&f=%5C2017.54det06_o2.jpg

Additional Views

Jul 6, 2017

Jul 7, 2017

Saint John the Baptist

c. 1500

attributed to Jan Crocq

(Netherlandish, act. 1486–1510)

French, Lorraine, Nancy or Bar-le-Duc

Tonnerre limestone

Overall: 163 x 59 x 40 cm (64 3/16 x 23 1/4 x 15 3/4 in.)

Weight: 600 lbs including wood base

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2017.54

Location

110B Late Gothic

Did you know?

St. John the Baptist holds a book and a lamb, referencing his description of Christ as "the lamb of God."

Description

John the Baptist was one of the most beloved and widely venerated saints of the Middle Ages. He is depicted here wearing his traditional camel hair fleece beneath a luxuriant outer mantle. The sculpture is attributed to Jan Crocq, a Netherlandish artist active at the court of René II, Duke of Lorraine at Nancy from 1486 to 1510, and noted for his naturalistic treatment of hair and costume.

Artist biography

Jan Crocq

French sculptor, active 1486-1611

Provenance

-1792

By repute from the Sainte-Chapelle, Dijon (before 1792)

Mr. E. Ingels, Belgium, late 1800s

-1919

Madame Francois Flameng , Paris, France

May 26-27, 1919

Sale: May 26-27, 1919, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, France, lot 195

1919-

(Jacques Seligmann, Paris, France)

-1928

Bela Hein (1883-1931), Paris, sold to Brummer Galleries, New York

1928-1933

Brummer Galleries, New York, NY, sold to The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art

1933-1991

The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, (after 1983 known as The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art), inv. no. 33-69

1991

De-Accessioned by the Nelson-Atkins in 1991; sold at Sotheby’s, New York, 1 June 1991, lot 18

1991-2014

Private collection, Belgium, sold at auction at Sotheby's, London

2014

Sotheby’s, London (July 10, 2014), lot 67

2014-2017

Sam Fogg, London sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art

2017-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Saunier, Charles, "Collection François Flameng" Les Arts. no. 164 (1918).

Galerie Georges Petit. Tableaux anciens et modernes; pastels; oeuvres de Ter Borch, J. Boze, J.B.S. Chardin, F. Clouet, Corneille de Lyon, Le Corrège, A.V. Dyck, Guardi, La Tour, Perronneau, Raphael, Rembrandt, Tiepolo, le Tintoret, Vélasquez, etc., etc. 1919. Lot 195

William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts. Handbook of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art. Kansas City, Mo: [The Joseph D. Havens Co.], 1933. p. 72

The Brummer Gallery Records. Cloisters (Museum), n.d. P05733 libmma.contentdm.oclc.org

“The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art”, Art News XXXII, no. 10, 1933 p. 50

William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Mo. The William Rockhill Nelson Collection. [Kansas City, Mo.]: [Chas. E. Brown Print. Co.], 1940. . p. 89, fig. 8

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The William Rockhill Nelson Collection. Kansas City, Mo: [Chas. E. Brown Print. Co.], 1949. p. 112

Nelson Gallery Foundation. Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri. 1959. p. 54

Fliegel, Stephen N. “Acquisition Highlights: Medieval Art.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 58. no. 2 (March/April 2018): 20. Reproduced: P. 20; Mentioned: P. 7, 20.

Griswold, William M. “Recent Acquisitions (2013-20) at the Cleveland Museum of Art.” Burlington Magazine 163, no. 1414 (January 2021): 93-104. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 94, no. 1; mentioned: P. 93

Biro, Yaëlle, Christine E. Brennan, and Christel H. Force. The Brummer Galleries, Paris and New York: Defining Taste from Antiquities to the Avant-Garde. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023. Mentioned: p. 350, note 153

Exhibition history

Recent Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 17-June 7, 2018).

Cite this page

{{cite web|title=Saint John the Baptist|url=https://clevelandart.org/art/2017.54|author=Jan Crocq|year=c. 1500|access-date=02 November 2023|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Contact us

The information about this object, including provenance, may not be currently accurate. If you notice a mistake or have additional information about this object, please email [email protected].

To request more information about this object, study images, or bibliography, contact the Ingalls Library Reference Desk.

All images and data available through Open Access can be downloaded for free. For images not available through Open Access, a detail image, or any image with a color bar, request a digital file from Image Services.

You are here:

Images

Saint John the Baptist

Saint John the Baptist

attributed to Jan Crocq

Location

Download and Share

Did you know?

Description

Jan Crocq

Contact us