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Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Leonardo da Vinci Loan Exhibition, 1949, cat. 34.

The Art Institute of Chicago, New Light on Old Masters: Research on Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute, 26 June—14 September 2008, no cat.

Publication History

Ilse Hecht, “The Infants Christ and Saint John Embracing: A Composition by Joos van Cleve,” AIC Bulletin 73 (1979), pp. 12–14, fig. 1.

Bernard Huys and Sebastien A. C. Dudok van Heel, Occo Codex, Buren, 1979, pl. 5.

Ilse Hecht, “The Infants Christ and Saint John Embracing: Notes on a Composition by Joos van Cleve,” Apollo 113 (1981), pp. 222–29, pl. 1.

John David Farmer, “Bernard van Orley of Brussels,” Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1981, p. 135.

Larry Silver, The Paintings of Quinten Massys with Catalogue Raisonné, Montclair, N.J., 1984, pp. 81, 180, 182, 188 n. 24, 190 n. 45, pl. 166.

S[ebastian] A. C. Dudok van Heel, “Amsterdamse portretten uit de zestiende eeuw (V), Amstelodamum 73 (1986), p. 110 (ill.).

John Oliver Hand, “Joos van Cleve’s Holy Family,” Currier Gallery of Art Bulletin (1989), pp. 17, 25 n. 26.

Franco Moro, “Spunti sulla diffusione di un tema leonardesco tra Italia e Fiandra sino a Lanino,” in I leonardeschi a Milano: Fortuna e collezionismo, ed. Maria Teresa Fiorio and Pietro C. Marani, Milan, 1991, pp. 127–128, fig. 8.

Guy Bauman and Walter A. Liedtke, Flemish Paintings in America: A Survey of Early Netherlandish and Flemish Paintings in the Public Collections of North America, Antwerp, 1992, p. 343, no. 287 (ill.).

C[arlo] P[edretti], “The Swedish Courier,” Achademia Leonardi Vinci 8 (1995), pp. 241–42.

Larry Silver, “Kith and Kin: A Rediscovered Sacred Image by Massys,” in Shop Talk: Studies in Honor of Seymour Slive, Cambridge, Mass., 1995, p. 233, fig. 3.

Jochen Sander, “Leonardo in Antwerpen: Joos van Cleves ‘Christus- und Johannesknabe, einander umarmend,’” Städel-Jahrbuch, n.s., 15 (1995), pp. 177, 183.

John Oliver Hand, “Joos van Cleve,” in The Dictionary of Art, vol. 7, New York 1996, p. 425.

Paul Mitchell and Lynn Roberts, “Frame,” in The Dictionary of Art, vol. 11, New York, 1996, p. 486.

Laura Traversi, “Il tema dei ‘Due fanciulli che si baciano e abbracciano’ tra ‘leonardismo italiano’ e ‘leonardismo fiammingo,’” Raccolta Vinciana 27 (1997), pp. 382, 385, 399–410, 415, 429–31, 434, no. 2, fig. 2.

Laura Traversi, “Il tema leonardesco dei ‘Due fanciulli che se baciano e abbracciano’: Il dipinto di Chatsworth e una proposta attributiva a Jan Massys,” Annales de la Société royale d’archéologie de Bruxelles 62 (1998), pp. 111–12, 116, 126–27, 129, 132.

Laura Traversi and Jorgen Wadum, “Un Tableau avec ‘Deux Enfants s’embrassant’ au Mauritshuis,” in Colloque XII 1999, pp. 103, 106–07.

Peter van den Brink, “The Art of Copying. Coyping and Serial Production of Paintings in the Low Countries in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries,” in Brueghel Enterprises, exh. cat., Maastricht, Bonnefanten Museum, 200l, p. 33.

Dagmar Eichberger, Leben mit Kunst, Wirken durch Kunst: Sammelwesen und Hofkunst unter Margarete von Österreich, Regentin der Niederlande, Turnhout, 2002, p. 31.

John Oliver Hand, Joos van Cleve: The Complete Paintings, New Haven and London, 2004, pp. 98–99, 164, no. 81, fig. 104.

Micha Leeflang, “Serial Production in Joos van Cleve’s Workshop,” in Bulletin des Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique 55 (2006), forthcoming.

Ownership History

Pompejus Occo (died 1537), Amsterdam. Spanish Art Gallery, London, 1949; sold to French and Co., New York, 1949 [according to Robert Samuels of French and Co., in conversation with Martha Wolff, March 31 and April 7, 1989]; sold to Ernest Joresco, Chicago, 1963 [according to Samuels, this took place on Dec. 21, 1963]; sold to the Art Institute, 1975.