Paul Before Felix

1. Given by the artist to Dr. Munro [1792 auc. cat.]. (John?) Greenwood; sold, Apr. 30, 1792, lot 48. W. Willett, 1862. Edward Cheney [inscription and initials on the reverse]. F. Capel Cure; sold, Sotheby’s, London, May 15, 1905, lot 99, to Harvey [London 1975 auc. cat.]. Sold, Christie’s, London, June 17, 1975, lot 59, to P. & D. Colnaghi, London, for Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2011.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• 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. 38, cat. 39 (ill.).

• A.P. Oppe, The Drawings of William Hogarth (New York, 1948), p. 46.
• Clovis Whitfield, “William Hogarth’s ‘Paul Before Felix’ at Lincoln’s Inn,” Burlington Magazine 113 (Mar. 1971), p. 210, fig. 54.
• Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 68, cat. 39 (ill.).

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