The Marriage at Cana

• The calling of St John during the marriage at Cana
• Christus bij Maria en Martha (former title)
• De bruiloft te Kana (former title)

SK-A-4820

De bruiloft te Kana, ook wel geïnterpreteerd als Christus bij Maria en Martha. Christus met verschillende andere gasten gezeten rond een gedekte tafel verlicht door kaarsen voor een feestmaal. Links een luitspeler.

• Abigail Bagley-Young, 'Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen's 'Cardinal Erard de la Marck' and 'Holy Family': a diptych reunited', The Burlington Magazine 150 (2008), p. 81, afb. 13.
• P. Hecht en G. Luyten, '...', Kunstschrift Openbaar Kunstbezit 6 (1986), p. 199, fig. 24
• K. Steinbart, 'Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen", Marburger Jahrbüch fur Kunstwissenschaft 6 (1931) p. 104-106, 108, afb. 21.
• David Van Edwards, 'The Marriage at Cana c.1530', The English Lute Society (2014) nr. 108.

• painter: Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen, Mechelen
• Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen, Brussels

c. 1530 - c. 1532

olieverf op paneel

height 66.5 cm x width 85 cm

Public domain

…; ? inventory of paintings, Diego Duarte, Amsterdam, 12 July 1682 (`Een groot stuck van de maeltijt van den vader des huysgesins uit het Evangelio van Joannue Magus, discipel van Raphel Urbin en schilder van Carolus V, fl. 200´;{Transcribed in Muller 1870, p. 398, no. 40} …; the dealer, Annesley Gore, London, on behalf of an English nobleman, 1914;{Note Friedländer on photo, RKD, no. 28155: `Gore 1914/Gehört engl. Aristokraten´. Steinbart 1931, pp. 104-05, relates that the painting was offered to the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, Berlin shortly before World War I.} ...; collection Mrs Hope-Webb (?-1952);{According to the catalogue for the sale, London (Sotheby´s), 9 December 1981} her nephew, Nigal Logan, Chipping Campden, Cotswolds, until 1969;{According to the catalogue for the sale, London (Sotheby´s), 9 December 1981} his sister, Lady St Vincent, Avranche Manor, Jersey;{Note RMA.} her sale, London (Sotheby´s), 9 December 1981, no. 103, £ 22,000, to the dealer Julius Weitzner Gallery, London;{Note RMA.} from whom, £ 25,000 (fl. 118,000) to the museum, 1982;{Provenance reconstructed in Horn 1989, I, p. 88, note 298.}

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

• Abigail Bagley-Young, 'Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen's 'Cardinal Erard de la Marck' and 'Holy Family': a diptych reunited', The Burlington Magazine 150 (2008), p. 81, afb. 13.
• P. Hecht en G. Luyten, '...', Kunstschrift Openbaar Kunstbezit 6 (1986), p. 199, fig. 24
• K. Steinbart, 'Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen", Marburger Jahrbüch fur Kunstwissenschaft 6 (1931) p. 104-106, 108, afb. 21.
• David Van Edwards, 'The Marriage at Cana c.1530', The English Lute Society (2014) nr. 108.

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