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The Capture of a Swarm of Bees in a Farmyard

Jan van der Straet · 1578/1605

Provenance

Ownership history

William A. Baillie-Grohman (1851–1921), London and Château de Matzen, Brixlegg, Tyrol [stamp (Lugt 370), verso, lower right, in black]; by descent to his wife, Mrs. Baillie-Grohman; sold, Sotheby's, London, May 14, 1923, lot 161, to Charles Francis George Richard Schwerdt (1862–1939), Old Alresford House, Hants, England; sold, Sotheby's, London, June 27, 1939, lot 1305. Marcel Jeanson, Paris; sold, Sotheby's, Monaco, Mar. 1, 1987, lot 518, to Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel, Munich. Jacobus A. Klaver [stamp (not in Lugt), verso, lower right, in brown], acquired in 1988 (Schapelhouman); sold, Sotheby's, Amsterdam, May 10, 1994, lot 14. Sold, Sotheby's, New York, Jan. 23, 2001, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, Mass.; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Tekeningen van oude meesters: De verzameling Jacobus A. Klaver, Rijksmuseum, 8 May–25 July 1993, p. 16–17, cat. 4 (ill).
Art Institute of Chicago, The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence, Nov. 9, 2002–Feb. 2, 2003, hors cat.
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. 42, cat. 17 (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. 196-97 (ill.), 199, 201, 316, cat. 70, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

Literature

C.F.G.R. Schwerdt, Hunting, Hawking, Shooting, illustrated in a catalogue of books, manuscripts, prints and drawings collected by C.F.G.R. Schwerdt, (London, 1928), vol. II, p. 227, no. 37;
C. F. G. R. Schwerdt, Hunting, Hawking, Shooting, illustrated in a catalogue of books, manuscripts, prints and drawings collected by C. F. G. R. Schwerdt, vol. 3 (London: Waterlow and Sons, 1928; reprint, Hildescheim, Zürich, New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1985), vol. III, p. 221, no. 12.
Marijn Schapelhouman, Tekeningen van oude meesters: de verzameling Jacobus A. Klaver, exh. cat. Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, May 8–July 25, 1993 (Zwolle: Waanders, 1993), pp. 16–17; pp. 230–231, cat. 4 (ill).
Alessandra Baroni Vannucci, Jan Van der Straet detto Giovanni Stradano: Flandrus pictor et inventor (Jandi Sapi, 1997), p. 256, no. 343.
The New Hollstein Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts 1450–1700, Johannes Stradanus, 3 vols, Compiled by Marjolein Leesberg, ed. Huigen Leeflang (Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2008, in cooperation with the Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam), III, no. 457, p. 145.

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