Abraham's Sacrifice of Isaac

1. Presumably John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, died 1722 [it is presumed that he was the purchaser of the Blenheim set of 120 copies made by Teniers as models for engravings forming part of a larger group of small copies after paintings in the collection of Archduke Leopold-Wilhelm]; his daughter, Henrietta, Duchess of Marlborough, certainly by 1728, when the copies were seen by Pierre Jacques Fougeroux [see Methuen-Campbell, 2006, p. 61]; by descent in the collection of the dukes of Marlborough to George Charles Spencer-Churchill, 8th Duke of Marlborough, sold, Christie’s, London, July 26, 1886, no. 133 to Thomas Agnew & Sons for £21 [according to annotated catalogue at the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorisch Documentatie, The Hague]; sold by Agnew’s to Charles Hutchinson, Chicago, September 24, 1886, died October 7, 1924 [copy of receipt in curatorial file]; his widow Frances Kinsley Hutchinson, died 1936; bequeathed to the Art Institute in 1936.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Art Institute of Chicago, Recent Accessions to the Permanent Collections of the Art Institute, December 22 – January 24, 1937, no cat.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Summer Exhibitions: Paintings from the Permanent Collections, July 20 – October 29, 1939, no. 7.

• George Scharf, Catalogue Raisonné; or, A List of the Pictures in the Private Apartments of Blenheim Palace; with Occasional Remarks and Illustrative Notes (London, 1862), vol. II, p. 159, no. 58.
• Charles Davis, A Collection of One Hundred and Twenty Paintings by David Teniers (From Blenheim Palace): The Property of His Grace the Duke of Marlborough. On Exhibition at Mr. Davis’s Galleries (London, 1884), p. 22, no. 58.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago: Report for the Year Nineteen Hundred Thirty-Six (Chicago, 1937), p. 40.
• George Vertue, “Notebooks,” The Volume of the Walpole Society 26 (1937-1938), p. 135.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 445.
• Hans H. Aurenhammer, “»Quadri numero sette esistenti nella sagrestia de San Giacomo della Zueca fatti per mano del q. Paulo Veronese«: Zur Provenienz und ursprünglichen Bestimmung einiger Bilder Veroneses und seiner Werkstatt im Wiener Kunsthistorischen Museum,” Jahrbuch des Kunsthistorischen Museums Wien 1 (1999), pp. 163, 170, ill., 181.
• Margret Klinge, “David Teniers and the Theatre of Painting,” in David Teniers and the Theatre of Painting, ed. Ernst Vegelin van Claerbergen (London, 2006), pp. 25-26, 28.
• James Methuen-Campbell, “Early Collections of Teniers’s Copies for the Theatrum Pictorium,” in David Teniers and the Theatre of Painting, ed. Ernst Vegelin van Claerbergen (London, 2006), pp. 59-63.
• Celia Hilliard, "'The Prime Mover': Charles L. Hutchinson and the Making of the Art Institute of Chicago," Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 36,1 (2010), p. 30, fig. 13.
• Louis Marchesano, “The Düsseldorf Gallery and the End of the Galeriewerk Tradition,” in Display Art History: The Düsseldorf Gallery and Its Catalogue, eds. Thomas W. Gaehtgens and Louis Marchesano (Los Angeles, 2011), pp. 61-62, ill.

The Guardhouse

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The Abduction of Europa

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The Abduction of Europa

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The Flageolet Player

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Circle Dance

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Scene of Witchcraft and Devil Worship

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Study for Country Festival near Antwerp

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Village Festival

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