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Abigail
Maerten van Heemskerck · c. 1560
Provenance
Ownership history
- John McGowan (died 1803), Edinburgh; possibly sold, Jan. 26–Feb. 4, 1804. Henry Reveley (1737–1798), North Wales, England; possibly sold, Christie’s, London May 11–12, 1852. Hamilton, London [according to inscription by Roupell]. Robert Prioleau Roupell (1798–1886), London [stamp (Lugt 2234), verso upper left in black]; sold, Christie's, London, July 12–14, 1887, lot 999. Private collector; sold, Karl & Faber, Munich, Nov. 16–17, 1959, lot 110. Sold by Richard Zinser, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1961.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958–1983, July 24–Sept. 30, 1985, pp. 72–73, cat. 27 (ill.); also the St. Louis Art Museum, Mar. 10–May 16, 1986.
- Milwaukee Art Museum, Old Master Drawings from Area Collections, 1997, pp. 12 and 27, cat. 13 (ill.).
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 187, 188-89 (ill.), 190-91, 198, 301, cat. 67, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.
Literature
Published references
- Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Mary Tavener Holmes, Fritz Koreny, Donald Posner, Duncan Robinson, The Robert Lehman Collection VII: Fifteenth to Eighteenth-Century European Drawings: Central Europe, The Netherlands, France, England (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999), see no. 29 (ill p. 134.)
- The New Hollstein Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts 1450–1700, Philips Galle, 4 vols., Compiled by Manfred Sellink and Marjolein Leesberg, ed. Manfred Sellink (Rotterdam: Sound and Vision Publishers, 2001 in cooperation with the Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam), vol. 1, no. 133, p. 188.
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