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A Huntsman with a Dead Hare and a Dog (Study for "Terra")

Jacques de Gheyn, II · 1590/95

Provenance

Ownership history

Charles Francis George Richard Schwerdt (1862–1939), Old Alresford House, Hants, England, by 1928 [Schwerdt 1928]; sold, Sotheby’s, London, June 27, 1939, lot 1247, to Wheeler [Altena 1983]. H. Eisenmann [Altena 1983]; sold, Sotheby’s, London, Mar. 11, 1964, lot 195, to C. G. Boerner, Düsseldorf; sold, C. G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, Feb. 10–28. 1966, lot 12. Sold by Paul Drey Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1969.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Düsseldorf, C. G. Boerner, Ausgewählte Handzeichnungn aus Vier Jahrhunderten, 1964, cat. 64.
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Jacques de Gheyn II, Drawings, Dec. 13, 1985–Sept. 2, 1986, pp. 39–40, cat. 5 (ill.); also Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, Sept. 3–Nov. 5, 1986.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 209, 211 (ill.), 212, 221, 298, cat. 75, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

Literature

C. F. G. R. Schwerdt, Hunting, Hawking, Shooting, illustrated in a catalogue of books, manuscripts, prints and drawings collected by C. F. G. R. Schwerdt, vol. 3 (London: Waterlow and Sons, 1928; reprint, Hildescheim, Zürich, New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1985), p. 208.
I. Q. van Regteren Altena, Jacques de Gheyn, Three Generations (The Hague: Martinus Nijfoff, 1983), II: p. 48, no. 175, III: pl. 47.
Jan Piet Filedt Kok, “Jacques de Gheyn II Engraver, Designer and Publisher–II: A Catalogue,” Print Quarterly 7, no. 4 (December 1990), under cat. Nos. 47–50, p. 376.
Ilja Veldman, “Goltzius’ Zintuigen, Seizoenen, Elementen, Planeten en Vier tijden van de dag: van allegorie naar genre-voorstelling,” Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 42/43 (1991–92), p. 334 (under note 58).
The New Hollstein Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts 1450–1700, The De Gheyn Family, 2 vols. Compiled by Jan Piet Filedt Kok and Marjolein Leesberg, ed. Ger Luijten (Rotterdam: Sound and Vision Publishers, 2000 in cooperation with the Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam) vol. I, no. 133, p. 199 (ill. p. 202).

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