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The Degradation of Haman before Ahasuerus and Esther
School of Rembrandt van Rijn · 1630s
Provenance
Ownership history
- 15th Earl of Shrewsbury (1753–1827), Alton Towers, Staffordshire, England [Deering collection records]. Charles Deering (1852–1927), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 516) verso, lower left, in blue]; by descent to his daughters, Mrs. Chauncey McCormick (née Marion Deering; 1886–1965), Chicago and Mrs. Richard Ely Danielson (née Barbara Deering; 1885–1957), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1927.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, Lent from American Collections, June 1–November 1, 1933, p. 86, cat. 805 (as Arent de Gelder).
- Art Institute of Chicago, [Loan Exhibition of] Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings by Rembrandt and His Circle, Dec. 19, 1935–Jan. 19, p. 38–39, cat. 49 (as Arent de Gelder).
- Worcester Art Museum, Rembrandt and his Circle, A Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings, Feb. 4–Mar. 1, 1936, p. 44, no. 49 (as Arent de Gelder).
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 65, 67 (ill.), 310, 334, cat. 18, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.
Literature
Published references
- W. McC. McK. “Drawings from the Charles Deering Collection,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago XXII (May, 1928), p. 65 (as De Gelder)
- Daniel Catton Rich, “Two Drawings of the Rembrandt School,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago XXIII: 5 (1929), p. 53–55 (ill.) (as Aert de Gelder?).
- Hans Tietze, European Master Drawings in the United States (New York, 1947), pp. 150–151, no. 75 (ill.) (as Aert de Gelder).
- Nathan Goldstein, The Art of Responsive Drawing, 5th ed. (Upper Saddle River, N. J., 1999), pp. 349–350, fig. 12.22.
- Shelley Perlove and George S. Keyes (editors), Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections (South Bend Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), pp. 174, no. 69, 175 (ill.) (as school of Rembrandt).
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