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Odysseus Threatening Circe
Willem van Mieris (Dutch, 1662–1747)
Title
Odysseus Threatening Circe
Artist
Willem van Mieris (Dutch, 1662–1747)
Date
1690
Medium
oil on panel
Dimensions
13 1/4 × 17 1/4 in. (33.7 × 43.8 cm)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Gift, through purchase, of Helen and Ted Kolderie
Object Number
1995.20
On View
On view
Provenance
Purchased at his sale, Leiden, September 2, 1771, lot 8, through Jansen by Van den Boogaard, Amsterdam, 1771.
Johannes Caudri, Amsterdam, by 1809;
Purchased at his sale, Amsterdam, September 6, 1809, lot 49, by Tomassen, 1809.
M. A. Kleynenbergh, Leiden, by 1841;
Purchased at his sale, Leiden, June 19, 1841, lot 127, by A. Nieuwenhuys, London, 1841.
Sold, Sotheby’s, London, November 24, 1971, lot 250.
With Colnaghi, New York by 1995;
Purchased from Colnaghi by Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1995.
Exhibition History
Stories of a Collection, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, August 28–October 3, 1999.
Ulisse. L’arte e il mito, Musei San Domenico, Forlí, Italy, February 14–October 31, 2020.
Titian to Monet: European Paintings from Joslyn Art Museum, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, October 14, 2022–January 8, 2023; Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from Joslyn Art Museum, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, February 22–May 28, 2023.
Published References
Musei San Domenico, Ulisse. L’Arte e Il Mito, eds. Gianfranco Brunelli, Francesco Leone, Fernando Mazzocca, Fabrizio Paolucci, and Paolo Reice (Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2020), 267, (repro.).
Taylor J. Acosta, European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020), 101–2, (repro.).
