
Jacob and Esau (recto); Head of a Young Woman Asleep (verso)
Samuel van Hoogstraten · 1647/78
Provenance
Ownership history
- 15th Earl of Shrewsbury (1753–1827), Alton Towers, Staffordshire, England [Deering collection records]. Charles Deering (1852–1927), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 516) verso, lower right, in blue]; by descent to his daughters, Mrs. Chauncey McCormick (née Marion Deering; 1886–1965), Chicago and Mrs. Richard Ely Danielson (née Barbara Deering; 1885–1957), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1927.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- W. McC. McK. “Drawings from the Charles Deering Collection,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago XXII (May, 1928), p. 65 (as Samuel van Hoogstraten).
- 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. 809 (as Samuel van Hoogstraten).
- 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. 52 (as Samuel van Hoogstraten).
- Worcester Art Museum, Rembrandt and his Circle, A Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings, Feb. 4–Mar. 1, 1936, p. 46, no. 52 (as Samuel van Hoogstraten).
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 73, 75 (ill.), 303, cat. 23, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.
Literature
Published references
- Daniel Catton Rich, “Two Drawings of the Rembrandt School,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago XXIII:5 (1929), p. 53–55, (as Samuel van Hoogstraten).
- Werner Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, ed. And trans. Walter L. Strauss (New York: Abaris Books, 1981), vol. 8, no. 2008x , p. 4480–81 (ill. p. 4481) (as Nicolaes Maes).
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