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King David Receiving the Cistern Water of Bethlehem

Master of the Antwerp Adoration Group · 1515–20

Provenance

Ownership history

Durand-Ruel, Paris, by 1880/82 [Durand-Ruel stockbook for these years; letter from Caroline Durand-Ruel Godfroy, Oct. 19, 1999, in curatorial file]; sold to Charles L. Hutchinson (d. 1924), Chicago, May 8, 1890 [shipped to Chicago on July 16, 1890, Art Institute Archive]; by descent to his widow, Frances Kinsley Hutchinson (d. 1936), Chicago; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1936.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Literature

Published references

Salomon Reinach, Répertoire de peintures du moyen âge et de la renaissance (1280–1580), vol. 2 (Paris: A. Burdin, 1907), 13, no. 1 (ill.; line drawing).
John La Farge, “Art in America: Two Works Formerly Attributed to Herri met de Bles,” Burlington Magazine 12 (1908): 387–88 (ill. opp. p. 387).
Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago (1936): 40.
“A Tour of the World of Art in 150 Masterpieces,” Masterpieces 1 (1950), p. 61 (ill. 1936.126).
The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute, 1961), 300.
Giovanni Carandente, Collections d’Italie, Répertoire 3 (Brussels: Centre national de recherches "Primitifs flamands", 1968), 14.
Peter van den Brink, in Jochen Sander, Gold, Weihrauch und Myrrhe: Die “von Grootesche Anbetung der Heiligen Drei Könige,” exh. cat. (Frankfurt: Städelsches Kunstinstitut: Städtische Galerie, 2001), 58, 60–61 (ill.).
Martha Wolff, “Hebrew Kings and Antwerp Mannerists,” in Collected Opinions: Essays on Netherlandish Art in Honor of Alfred Bader, ed. Volker Manuth and Axel Rüger (London: Paul Holberton, 2004), 279–93, figs. 1, 5–6.
Martha Wolff in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008), 129-35, ill.
Celia Hilliard, "'The Prime Mover': Charles L. Hutchinson and the Making of the Art Institute of Chicago," Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 36, no. 1 (2010): 43, 89, fig. 11.
Alison McQueen, From Renaissance to Rodin: Celebrating the Tanenbaum Gift, exh. cat. (Toronto: Joseph M. Tanenbaum, 2012), 30, under nos. 4 and 5.

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