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A Camel

Cornelis Saftleven · 1646

Provenance

Ownership history

John Malcolm; by descent to Alfred Gathorne-Hardy; by descent to Geoffrey Gathorne-Hardy; by descent to Robert Gathorne-Hardy; sold, Sotheby-Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, May 3, 1976, lot 6. British Rail Pension Fund; sold by Lexbourne Ltd., London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

London, P&D Colnaghi, Loan Exhibition of Drawings by Old Masters from the Collection of Mr. Geoffrey Gathorne-Hardy, Oct. 12–Nov. 5 1971, cat. 49, pl. XXX, also Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Nov. 20–Jan. 2 1972.
Art Institute of Chicago, New Acquisitions: Old Master Drawings, Dec. 2, 1989–June 8, 1990, no cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by the Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 10, 1991–Jan. 5, 1992, n.p., cat. 15; also New York, Frick Collection, Apr. 23–July 7, 1991.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 18-19, 20-21 (ill.), 45n6, 314, 335 (ill.), cat. 1, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

Literature

A.E. Gathorne- Hardy, Descriptive catalogue of drawings by the old masters in the possession of the Hon. A. E. Gathorne-Hardy, 77 Cadogan Square (Ballantyne Press, 1902), no. 85.
Wolfgang Schulz, Cornelis Saftleven 1607–1681: Leben und Werke (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1978), p. 150, cat. 375.
Shelley Perlove and George S. Keyes (editors), Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), pp. 115, 178, no 71, 179 (ill.).

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