About This Artwork

Abraham Janssens
Flemish, c. 1573/4-1632

Jupiter Rebuked by Venus, c. 1612/13

Oil on canvas
77 3/4 x 93 1/2 in. (197.5 x 237.5 cm)
Restricted gift of The Old Masters Society; the Alexander A. McKay Endowment, 1986.996

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1986–87 (Chicago, 1987), pp. 22–23, 56.

Guy C. 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. 341, no. 274.

Ownership History

John Gage Predergast Vereker, 5th Viscount Gort (died 1902), Durham; offered for sale by his estate, Christie’s, London, 20 December 1902, lot 115, as Luca Giordano, bought in. Private collection, Ireland. Sold, Sotheby’s, London, 17 November 1982, no. 12, to Patrick Matthiesen, London; sold to the Art Institute, December 1986.