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Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the Fiery Furnace
Simeon Solomon · Oct. 1863
Provenance
Ownership history
- Christopher Wood Gallery, London. Private collection, London and New York. Sold, Christie’s, London, Nov. 5, 1993, lot 128. Barry Friedman Ltd, New York, 2000. The Hearn Family Trust, New York, by Oct. 2005 [Birmingham 2005 exh. cat.]; sold through Mireille Mosler, Ltd., New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- London, The Gallery, Berners Street, Winter Exhibition, Feb. 1863, cat. 40.
- Dudley Gallery, Sixth General Exhibition of Water-Color Drawings, Jan. 1870, cat. 45 (as The Three Holy Children in the Fiery Furnace).
- London, Geffrye Museum, Solomon. A Family of Painters, Nov. 8–Dec. 31, 1985, cat. 46, p. 68 (ill.); Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Jan. 18–Mar. 9, 1986.
- Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Love Revealed: Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites, Oct. 1, 2005–Jan. 15, 2006, cat. 40, pp. 90–91 (ill.); Munich, Museum Villa Stuck, Mar. 9–June 18, 2006; The London Jewish Museum of Art, Ben Uri Gallery, Sept. 11–Nov. 26 2006.
Literature
Published references
- W.M. Rossetti, Fine Art Quarterly Review I (May 1863), p. 195. “Dudley Gallery. Sixth General Exhibition of Drawings,” The Art-Journal (Mar. 1, 1870), p. 87.
- Atheneum (Feb. 12, 1870), p. 234. Illustrated London News (Feb. 12, 1870), pp. 181–82.
- The Spectator (Feb. 19, 1870), p. 237.
- Simon Reynolds, The Vision of Simeon Solomon (England: Stroud, 1984), pl. 31, p. 176.
- Gayle Marie Seymour, “The Life and Work of Simeon Solomon (1840–1905),” 1986, dissertation University of California, Santa Barbara, pp. 91, 318, fig. 95.
- Jasmine Allen, “Simeon Solomon and Stained Glass,” Pre-Raphaelite Society Review, XXVIII:3 (Autumn 2020), pp. 25–26, fig. 3.5.
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