
Men Hunting Ibexes with Hounds
Jan van der Straet · 1578
Provenance
Ownership history
- Bernard Quaritch (1819–1899), London, 1886 [Catalogue of Manuscripts no. 35768]. William A. Baillie-Grohman (1851–1921), London and Château de Matzen, Brixlegg, Tyrol [stamp (Lugt 370), verso, lower right, in black]; by descent to his wife, Mrs. Baillie-Grohman; sold, Sotheby's, London, May 14, 1923, part of lots 157, 158, 159, or 161. Charles Francis George Richard Schwerdt (1862–1939), Old Alresford House, Hants, England; sold Sotheby's, London, July 10, 1929, part of lot 1305. Marcel Jeanson; sold, Sotheby's, Monaco, Mar. 1, 1987, lot 525. Sold, Sotheby's, New York, Jan. 12, 1990, lot 38. Given by Celia and David Hilliard, Chicago, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2001.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, Dreams and Echoes: Drawings and Sculpture in the David and Celia Hilliard Collection, Oct. 20, 2013–Feb. 16, 2014, pp. 19, 26–27, 207, cat. 2 (ill.).
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 193-94, (ill.), 198-99, 316, cat. 69, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.
Literature
Published references
- William A. Baillie-Grohman, Sport in Art, an Iconography of Sport (London: Ballantyne, 1913), p. 121.
- C. F. G. R. Schwerdt, Hunting, Hawking, Shooting, illustrated in a catalogue of books, manuscripts, prints and drawings collected by C. F. G. R. Schwerdt, vol. 3 (London: Waterlow and Sons, 1928; reprint, Hildescheim, Zürich, New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1985), p. 221, no. 4 (no ill).
- Alessandra Baroni Vannucci, Jan Van Der Straet detto Giovanni Stradano (Milan: Jandi Sapi, 1997), p. 251, no. 326 (ill.).
- The New Hollstein Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts 1450–1700, Johannes Stradanus, 3 vols, Compiled by Marjolein Leesberg, ed. Huigen Leeflang (Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2008, in cooperation with the Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam ), III, no. 435, p. 138
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