Study of a Male Nude by Adriaen van de Velde
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Study of a Male Nude

Adriaen van de Velde · n.d.

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Unknown collector [unidentified stamp, recto, lower left, in black]. Kurt Meissner (1909–2004), Zurich and Zolliken. 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

  • 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. 19; 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. 34, 121 (ill.), 122, 317, 336 (ill.), cat. 38, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

Literature

Published references

  • Werner Sumowski, Handzeichnungen Alter Meister aus Schweizer Privatbesitz, exh. Cat., Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, January/February 1968, pp. 86–87, no. 185 (ill.).
  • 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), cat. no. 74, p. 74 (ill.).
  • Shelley Perlove and George S. Keyes (editors), Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), pp. 116, 188 no. 76, 189 (ill.).

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