The Battle between Carnival and Lent
The Battle between Carnival and Lent is a painting by the Haarlem artist Jan Miense Molenaer, who excelled in genre paintings and shared a studio with his wife, the celebrated female artist of the Dutch Golden Age, Judith Leyster. This painting was acquired through Nicholas Hall by the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Indianapolis.
Provenance
Private Collection, United States
with Jack Kilgore & Co., New York
with Otto Naumann, New York, by 1997
with Hall & Knight, Ltd., London and New York, by 1998; sold to
Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Exhibitions
Guangzhou, Guandong Museum, Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from the Clowes Collection and the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, 10 January 2020–17 May 2020; travelled to Changsha, Hunan Provincial Museum, 29 May 2020–13 September 2020; travelled to Chengdu, Chengdu Museum, 28 September 2020–4 January 2021
Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, Jan Miense Molenaer: Paintings of the Dutch Golden Age, 13 October 2002–5 January 2003; travelled to Indianapolis, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 25 January 2003–16 March 2003; travelled to Manchester, Currier Museum of Art, 6 April 2003–17 June 2003
Bibliography
Gazette des beaux–arts, March 1999, p. 51, fig. 191.
Dennis P. Weller, Jan Miense Molenaer: Painter of the Dutch Golden Age, Raleigh, 2002, exh. cat., p. 118, reproduced no. 18.