A Nude Female Figure Fleeing to the Right with Arms Outstretched, with Sketch of a Bust of Secondary Figure (recto); A Sketch of a Nude, Kneeling Female Figure, Supported by Another Standing (verso) by Hendrick Goltzius
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A Nude Female Figure Fleeing to the Right with Arms Outstretched, with Sketch of a Bust of Secondary Figure (recto); A Sketch of a Nude, Kneeling Female Figure, Supported by Another Standing (verso)

Hendrick Goltzius · c. 1600 (recto); 1598/99 (verso)

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Johann Andreas Boerner (1785–1862), Leipzig; sold, Rudolf Weigel, Leipzig, Nov. 28, 1864, lot 97, as Andromeda on the Rock.  Dr. Benno Geiger (1882–1965), Vienna, by 1925 [Planiczig and Voss 1925].  W. Unna [Boerner 1991]. Jacob (Jaap) Hendrick Wiegersma (1898–1967), Utrecht [stamp (Lugt 1552b), verso lower left, in red].  Anton Schmid (born 1904), Vienna, by 1961 [stamp (Lugt 2330b) verso, upper right, in black; Reznicek 1961]; probably placed on consignment with Arnoldi-Livie, Munich [letter from Susan Lewis Kaye of Boerner dated May 2, 1997 in curatorial file]; sold to C. G. Boerner, Oct. 1989 [Susan Lewis Kay letter noted above]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1997.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 137, 140 (ill.), 299-300, 331 (ill.), cat. 42, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

Literature

Published references

  • Leo Planiscig and Hermann Voss, Drawings of Old Masters from the Collection of Dr. Benno Geiger (Zürich: Amalthea Publishing Office, 1925), p. 14, pl. 39, (as Francesco Furini).
  • E.J.K. Reznicek, Die Zeichnungen von Hendrick Goltzius (Utrecht: Hantjens Dekker & Gumbert, 1961), vol. 1, p. 458, no. 445; vol. 2, pls. 377 and 378.
  • C.G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, Stock Catalogue 97, Acquisitions 1990–1991: "Five Hundred Years of Prints and Drawings, Part Two: Drawings," (1991), pp. 13–14, no. 120, and 19 (ill.).
  • Artemis S.A., Luxembourg, Artemis 96–97: Consolidated Audited Annual Report, Annual General Meeting (Jan. 1998), p. 14, no. 4 (ill.).

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