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Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout · 1650/74

Provenance

Ownership history

Sold by Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, to Dr. Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (1863-1930), The Hague [stamp (Lugt 561), verso, lower center, in brown], 1920; sold, Boerner, Leipzig, Nov. 4, 1931, lot. 130 (as Philips Koninck), to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1931.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, Verzameling Dr. C. Hofstede de Groot III: schilderijen, teekeningen en kunstnijverheid, 16 August–16 September 1930, cat. 64. (as Philips de Koningh).
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, Lent from American Collections, June 1 to November 1, 1933, p. 87, cat. 811 (as Philips de Koningh).
Art Institute of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings by Rembrandt and His Circle, Dec. 19, 1935–Jan. 19, 1936, p. 40, cat. 55 (as Philips Koninck).
Worcester Art Museum, Rembrandt and his Circle, A Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings, Feb. 4–Mar. 1, 1936, p. 46-47, no. 55.
Art Institute of Chicago, "Rembrandt After Three Hundred Years," Oct. 25-Dec. 7, 1969, pp. 189 and 244 (ill.), no. 168 ; also Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Dec. 22, 1969-Feb. 1, 1970, and Detroit Institute of Arts, Feb. 24-Apr. 5, 1970 (as Gerbrand van den Eeckhout).
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 182 (ill.), 184-85, 295, cat. 65, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

Literature

Felix Becker, Handzeichnungen Holländischer Meister, aus der Sammlung Dr. C. Hofstede de Groot im Haag, (Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1923), no. 22 (as Philips Koninck).
Frits Lugt, Inventaire général des dessins des écoles du Nord; vol III, École hollandaise Rembrandt, ses élèves, ses imitateurs, ses copistes (Paris, 1933), pp. 40–41, under no. 1225.
Horst Gerson, Philips Koninck: ein Beitrag zur Erforschung der Holländischen Malerei des XVII Jahrhunderts (Berlin, 1936), pp. 175–176, Z.LXXV (as closer to Van den Eeckhout).
M. D. Henkel, Tekeningen van Rembrandt en zijn school, Catalogus van de Nederlandse Tekeningen in het Rijksmuseum te Amsterdam, 1943, p. 75, under no. 6.
Werner Sumowski, Bemerkungen zu Otto Beneschs Corpus der Rembrandt-zeichnungen, II (Bad Pyrmont: 1961), p. 11, under no. 533 (as school of Rembrandt, related to painting by Gerbrandt van den Eeckhout).
Wolfgang Wegner, “Bemerkungen zu Zeichnungen Rembrandts und seiner Schule in der Albertina,” Albertina Studien 5/6 (1967/68), p. 151 (c. 1664).
Werner Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, ed. And trans. Walter L. Strauss (New York: Abaris Books, 1981), vol. 3, 643 (as Gerbrand van den Eekhout).

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