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Seated Female Nude
Samuel van Hoogstraten · 1647/78
Provenance
Ownership history
- John Skippe. Edward Holland Martin, Esquire. Mrs. A. C. Rayner-Wood, by 1934 [Birmingham 1934 exh. cat.]; sold, Christie’s, Nov. 20–21, 1958, lot 272, to Dr. R. Schilling (for 150 pounds) [annotated sale catalogue and Baden-Baden 1968 exh. cat.]. Kurt Meissner (1909–2004), Zurich and Zolliken [stamp (Lugt 4665), on mount, recto, lower left, in black]. British Rail Pension Fund; sold by Lexbourne Ltd., London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Birmingham, City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Commemorative Exhibition of the Art Treasures of the Midlands, 1934, p. 54, no. 203, as Rembrandt.
- London, Royal Academy of Arts, Drawings by Old Masters, Aug. 13–Oct. 25, 1953, vol. 1, no. 322.
- Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Handzeichnungen Alter Meister aus Schweizer Privatbesitz, Jan./Feb. 1968, p. 78, no. 158 (ill). [Werner Sumowski, author]
- Stanford, Stanford Art Gallery, 2 November–14 December 1969; Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, 27 January–8 March 1970; New York, Finch College Museum of Art, 1 April–15 June 1970, Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Kurt Meissner (Stanford Art Book 10, Department of Art, Stanford University), no. 69, p. 73 (ill).
- Art Institute of Chicago, New Acquisitions: Old Master Drawings, Dec. 2, 1989–June 8, 1990, no cat.
- Art Institute of Chicago, From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by the Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 10, 1991–Jan. 5, 1992, n.p., cat. 14; also New York, Frick Collection, Apr. 23–July 7, 1991.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 127 (ill.), 131, 302-3cat. 41, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.
Literature
Published references
- A.E. Popham, intro., Catalogue of the Well-known Collection of Old Master Drawings, Principally of the Italian School, formed in the 18th century by John Skippe, Now the Property of Edward Holland Martin, Esq. (London: Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd., 1958), p. 193, lot no. 272, pl. 37.
- Werner Sumowski, Bemerkungen zu O. Beneschs Corpus der Rembrandtzeichnungen II (Bad Pyrmont, 1961), under no. 710, p. 14.
- Werner Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, ed. And trans. Walter L. Strauss (New York: Abaris Books, 1981), vol. 5, no. 1252x , p. 2772–73 (ill. p. 2772 ).
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