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Noah's Sacrifice, plate IX from The Creation and Early History of Man
Jan Wierix · 1606
Provenance
Ownership history
- Possibly, Emperor Rudolf II (1552–1611), Prague. Baron Adalbart von Lanna (1836–1909), Prague [stamp (Lugt 2773), verso, lower left, in brown]; sold, Gutekunst, Stuttgart, May 6–11, 1910, lot 596. Mrs. Toni Straus-Negbaur (died 1942), Berlin-Grunewald [stamp (Lugt 2459a), verso, lower left, in black]; sold, Cassirer, Berlin, Nov. 25–26, 1930, lot 118. Private collection, Germany. Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel, Munich, by 1993; sold to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, Mass, Jan. 11, 1994; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Munich, Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel, Jan Wierix, 1549–1620: Nine Drawings from the Creation and the Early History of Man, 1993, p. 13, cat. 9.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Gifts of a Lifetime: 49 Old Masters Drawings from the Dorothy Braude Edinburg Collection, Dec. 11,1998–Mar. 28,1999, checklist 10.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 43, cat. 18 (ill.).
- Art Institute of Chicago, The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, Mar. 15–June 15, 2014, no cat.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 27, 28 (ill.), 30, 320, 333, cat. 3, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.
Literature
Published references
- Carl van de Velde, Jan Wierix: The Creation and the Early History of Man, 1607–1608, exh. cat. (New York, Richard L. Feigen, 1990), p. 75, no. 19a.
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