Jupiter and Mercury in the House of Philemon and Baucis

Artist Jacob Jordaens Flemish, 1593–1678

Datecirca 1645

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions43 1/8 x 55 1/8 in. (109.5 x 140 cm)
Frame: 52 3/4 x 64 3/4 in. (134 x 164.5 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number52.9.99

On View

On view

ProvenanceCreated Flanders [present day Belgium]. Probably Mrs. Green(e), Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, England, 19th century. Sir Philip Noel Panton (1877– 1950), London; [Christie, Manson & Woods, London, May 25, 1951, no. 153, as The Prodigal Feasting by Rubens]; [Koetser Gallery, New York]; sold to NCMA, 1952.
Published References“Catalogue of Ancient and Modern Pictures and Drawings from various sources” (auction catalogue) (London: Christie, Manson & Woods, May 25, 1951), lot 153, as The Prodigal Feasting by Rubens.

W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 118.

Michael Jaffé, "The Robust Virtuosity of Jordaens," Apollo, no. 81 (1968), 364, 369.

Michael Jaffé, Jacob Jordaens, 1593-1678 (exhibition catalogue) (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1968), cat. no. 87, illus.

Gerard Régnier, "Jacob Jordaens: The Prime Painter Heire," Arts Magazine 43, no. 3 (December/January 1969), 55, 56.

Jean Clair, "Jacob Jordaens: Des dieux, des bêtes et des hommes," L'Oeil no. 169 (January 1969), 17-18, illus. no. 3.

Heribert Hutter, Konfrontationen (Stuttgart: Chr. Belser, 1971), no. 238, illus.

Eric E. Young, "El Festín de Herodes, de Rubens y un boceto en el Museo Lázaro Galdiano," Goya - Revista de Arte no. 112 (1973), 218, illus. 219.

Rubens and Humanism (exhibition catalogue) (Birmingham, AL: Birmingham Museum of Art, 1978), cat. no. 21, illus. (b-w) 27.

Roger-Adolf d'Hulst and P.S. Falla, trans., Jacob Jordaens (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1982), 220, 337n51.

Jane Reid Reid, Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300-1990, Vol. 1 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), 272.

Guy C. Bauman and Walter A. Liedtke, selected by, Flemish Paintings in America: A Survey of Early Netherlandish and Flemish Paintings in the Public Collections of North America, Arnout Balis, Carl Van de Velde and Hans Vlieghe, eds., Flandria Extra Muros series (Antwerp: Fonds Mercator, 1992), 345, illus. fig. 296.

Dennis P. Weller, et al, Saints and Sinners, Darkness and Light: Caravaggio and His Dutch and Flemish Followers (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 151, illus (b-w). (Catalogue only, not in show.)

Dennis P. Weller, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2009), cat. no. 56, illus. (color) 268.
Exhibition HistoryOttawa, National Gallery of Canada, "Jacob Jordaens, 1593-1678," November 29, 1968-January 5, 1969, cat. no. 87, illus.

Birmingham, AL, Birmingham Museum of Art, "Rubens and Humanism," April 15-May 28, 1978, cat. no. 21, illus. (b-w) 27.

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