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King Solomon Receiving the Queen of Sheba
Provenance
Durand-Ruel, Paris, by 1880/82 [Durand-Ruel stockbook for these years; letter from Caroline Durand-Ruel Godfroy, Oct. 19, 1999, in curatorial file]; sold to Charles L. Hutchinson (d. 1924), Chicago, May 8, 1890 [shipped to Chicago on July 16, 1890, Art Institute Archive]; by descent to his widow, Frances Kinsley Hutchinson (d. 1936), Chicago; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1936.
Publications
Salomon Reinach, Répertoire de peintures du moyen âge et de la renaissance (1280–1580), vol. 2 (Paris: A. Burdin, 1907), 13, no. 1 (ill.; line drawing). John La Farge, “Art in America: Two Works Formerly Attributed to Herri met de Bles,” Burlington Magazine 12 (1908): 387–88 (ill. opp. p. 387). Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago (1936): 18 (ill.), 40. “A Tour of the World of Art in 150 Masterpieces,” Masterpieces 1 (1950): 61 (ill. 1936.126). The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute, 1961), 300. Giovanni Carandente, Collections d’Italie, Répertoire 3 (Brussels: Centre national de recherches "Primitifs flamands", 1968), 14. Peter van den Brink, in Jochen Sander, Gold, Weihrauch und Myrrhe: Die “von Grootesche Anbetung der Heiligen Drei Könige,” exh. cat. (Frankfurt: Städelsches Kunstinstitut: Städtische Galerie, 2001), 58, 60–61 (ill.). Martha Wolff, “Hebrew Kings and Antwerp Mannerists,” in Collected Opinions: Essays on Netherlandish Art in Honor of Alfred Bader, ed. Volker Manuth and Axel Rüger (London: Paul Holberton, 2004), 279–93, figs. 1, 5–6. Martha Wolff in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008), 129-35, ill. Celia Hilliard, "'The Prime Mover': Charles L. Hutchinson and the Making of the Art Institute of Chicago," Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 36, no. 1 (2010): 43, 89, fig. 11. Alison McQueen, From Renaissance to Rodin: Celebrating the Tanenbaum Gift, exh. cat. (Toronto: Joseph M. Tanenbaum, 2012), 30, under nos. 4 and 5.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Master of the Antwerp Adoration Group (Netherlandish, active c. 1520)
- Date
- 1515–20
- Medium
- Oil on panel transferred to canvas
- Dimensions
- 73.2 × 27.7 cm (28 7/8 × 10 3/4 in.); Framed: 79.4 × 32.8 × 5.1 cm (31 1/4 × 12 7/8 × 2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- 16th Century
- Place
- Belgium
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Charles L. Hutchinson
- Accession no.
- 1936.126
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