Landscape with Tournament and Hunters

1519–20

Jan van Scorel
Netherlandish, 1495-1562

This landscape was painted by the young Jan van Scorel as he traveled from northern Italy to Rome to study antiquities and the new Renaissance style. It was executed on poplar, a type of wooden support common in Italy, and its elongated format suggests that it was set into paneling as part of a room decoration. The painting celebrates two aristocratic pastimes, jousting and hunting; Scorel used a 1506 woodcut by Lucas Cranach the Elder as the model for the lively crowd watching the joust. Italian patrons were particularly drawn to the Northern European vision of chivalric subjects and courtly pursuits, and the jousting theme was no doubt requested of the young Dutch painter, who showed a talent for combining small active figures in a landscape setting.

Status: On View, Gallery 207
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Jan van Scorel
Title: Landscape with Tournament and Hunters
Place: Netherlands (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1519–1520
Medium: Oil on panel
Dimensions: 57.8 × 138.5 cm (22 3/4 × 54 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: George F. Harding Collection
Reference Number: 1990.560
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Friedrich Winkler, “Jan Scorel oder “Zuan Fiamengo,” Oud Holland 48 (1931), p. 176, fig. 2.
M[olly] F[aries], in Fiamminghi a Roma, 1508–1608, exh. cat., Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, and Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, 1995, p. 255, under no. 179.
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Molly Faries, “Scorel, Jan van,” in Dictionary of Art, vol. 28, 1996, p. 216.
Monika Anne Schmitter, “7e Display of Distinction: Art Collecting and Social Status in Early Sixteenth-Century Venice,” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1997, pp. 69, 76.
Molly Faries, “Jan van Scorel’s Jerusalem Landscapes,” in In Detail: New Studies of Northern Renaissance Art in Honor of Walter S. Gibson, ed. Laurinda S. Dixon, Turnhout, 1998, pp. 114–16, 128, 131, fig. 2.
Jill Dunkerton, “North and South: Painting Techniques in Venice,” in Renaissance Venice and the North: Crosscurrents in the Time of Bellini, Dürer and Titian, exh. cat., ed. Bernard Aikema and Beverly Louise Brown, Venice, Palazzo Grassi, 1999, p.
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Beverly Louise Brown, in Renaissance Venice and the North, p. 462, under no. 125.
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Martha Wolff in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 297-301, ill.

New York, Corona Mundi International Art Center (Roerich Museum), Exhibition of Old Masters, 1927, no. 1, as Vinckboons.
Art Institute of Chicago, On the Road to Italy: Early Paintings by Dutch Renaissance Master Jan van Scorel, 1998 (no cat.).

R. Sabelsky, Saint Petersburg [according to the catalogue of the Roerich sale in 1930 cited below]. Roerich Museum, New York, by 1927 [according to the catalogue of the Roerich sale]; sold, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, Mar. 27–28, 1930, no. 128. George F. Harding, Jr. (d. 1939), Chicago; bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago; ownership transferred to the Art Institute, 1982; accessioned, 1990.

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