About This Artwork

Heinrich Jansen
Danish, 1625-1667

Christ in the Storm, 1650

Oil on panel
32 1/4 x 46 3/4 in. (82 x 118.8 cm)
Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection, 1941.1

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Duveen Galleries, Paintings by Great Masters of the Seventeenth Century, October-November 1942, cat. 42 (ill.).

Publication History

L.G.S., “Forthcoming Sales,” (Fischer, Lucerne), Burlington Magazine 65 (August 1934) p. xiii.

“Fischer Gallery in Lucerne Offers Fine Auction Series,” Art News 32 (18 August 1934) pp. 7, 11 (ill.).

Advertisement, The Art News 32, no. 39 (August 18, 1934).

The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1941 (Chicago,1941), p. 11.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago,1961), p. 366.

Ownership History

Possilby sale J.M. Cok, Amsterdam, December 16, 1771, lot 167 for 90 florins to Van der Schley [see C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. 6, 1916, p. 82, no. 103a]. Sale Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, September 1, 1934, lot 1911 (pl. 65). Hans Schaeffer Galleries, New York; sold to Charles Worcester, December 30, 1940 [receipt in curatorial files]; given to the Art Institute, 1941.