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    King David Receiving the Cistern Water of Bethlehem
    Master of the Antwerp Adoration Group. King David Receiving the Cistern Water of Bethlehem, 1515–20. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00001535

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    King David Receiving the Cistern Water of Bethlehem

    by Master of the Antwerp Adoration Group

    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): 40. “A Tour of the World of Art in 150 Masterpieces,” Masterpieces 1 (1950), p. 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
    73.5 × 27.5 cm (28 7/8 × 10 7/8 in.); Framed: 79.7 × 33.4 × 5.1 cm (31 3/8 × 13 1/8 × 2 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    oil on panel
    Style
    16th Century
    Place
    Belgium
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Gift of Mrs. Charles L. Hutchinson
    Accession no.
    1936.127

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