Jupiter Rebuked by Venus
Abraham Janssens (Flemish, c. 1575-1632)
c. 1612
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Archival matte paper, 189 g/m² (10.3 mil), sourced from Japan, printed with multicolor water-based inkjet so every brushstroke stays crisp. Framed prints arrive ready to hang in a .75″ ayous-wood frame with an acrylite front. Sized to standard frames by cropping, never stretching — at most about 3% comes off one edge, which isn’t noticeable on most pieces, and we only offer a size when it stays that small.
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About this work
Abraham Janssens, Peter Paul Rubens's major competitor in Antwerp in the 1610s, produced monumental paintings of mythological and secular subjects. Influenced by his five-year stay in Rome, he injected his paintings with recognizable quotations from ancient sculpture and Italian Renaissance painting. This scene of Venus reprimanding the visibly annoyed Jupiter on Mount Olympus is a direct reference to a composition by the Italian artist Raphael on the ceiling of the Villa Farnesina in Rome. Janssens, however, enhanced the power and dynamism of the figures by emphasizing their musculature and working on a larger scale.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 197.5 × 237.5 cm (77 3/4 × 93 1/2 in.)
Museum record · 3 owners
Provenance
- 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, to Patrick Matthiesen, London; sold to the Art Institute, December 1986.
