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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Two Studies of a Roma Woman and a Roma Boy in a Large Hat
    Jacques de Gheyn II. Two Studies of a Roma Woman and a Roma Boy in a Large Hat, c. 1605. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00002184

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    Two Studies of a Roma Woman and a Roma Boy in a Large Hat

    by Jacques de Gheyn II

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed verso, upper left, in graphite: "6" (on its side); center, in graphite: "Middleton"; lower left, in pen and brown ink: "R/PB" (in a triangle (twice)); small circle with two diagonal lines extending below; lower center, in graphite: "Jacob de Gheyn / J d G"; lower center, in pen and brown ink: "Van der Veen"

    Provenance

    Anton Schmid (born 1904), Vienna [Altena 1973].  Ch. Wertheimer, Paris [Altena 1973]. Sold by Charles Slatkin Galleries, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1959.

    Exhibition history

    New York, Charles Slatkin Galleries, Drawings by Old and Modern Masters, 1959, pl. VI. New York, Wildenstein and Company, Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 17–Nov. 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 27, pl. XI. Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Vassar College Art Gallery, Dutch Mannerism, Apr. 15–June 7, 1970, p. 37, pl. 33, cat. 40. Washington D.C., The National Gallery of Art, Seventeenth Century Dutch Drawings from American Collections, Jan. 30–Mar. 13, 1977; also the Denver Art Museum, Apr. 1–May 15, 1977; and Fort Worth, Tex., the Kimbell Art Museum, June 1–July 15, 1977, pp. 8–9, cat. 5 (ill.). Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Jacques de Gheyn II Drawings, 1986, p. 67, cat. 62 (ill.); also Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art. Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini, Claude Mellan: gli anni romani: un incisore tra Vouet e Bernini, Oct. 24, 1989–Jan. 8, 1990, cat. 32. [GRI L3] Milwaukee Art Museum, Old Master Drawings from Area Collections, Apr. 18–June 29, 1997, pp. 13 and 26, pl. 12, cat. 24. Art Institute of Chicago, The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present, Sept. 12–Oct. 31, 1999, no cat. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 145-46, 148 (ill.), 175, 299, cat. 46, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al. Chicago, Newberry Libary, "Seeing Race Before Race", September 8 - December 30, 2023.

    Publications

    Harold Joachim, "Notes on Some Recently Acquired Drawings," The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly LIII:2 (Apr. 1959), p. 22 (ill. on cover of publication). Alfred Frankfurter, "Il Bon Disegno from Chicago," Art News, 62 (Nov. 1963), p.30 (ill), p. 57. Harold Joachim, Art Institute of Chicago, A Quarter Century of Collecting: Drawings Given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1944–1970, by Margaret Day Blake, Apr. 28–June 7, 1970, n.p., cat. 6 (ill.). Richard Judson, The Drawings of Jacob de Gheyn (New York, 1973), vol II, p. 27, no. 105 (ill.). I. Q. van Regteren Altena, Jacques de Gheyn, Three Generations (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1983), vol. II, p. 88, no. 535, p. 154, pl. 298. Nathan Goldstein, The Art of Responsive Drawing, 5th ed. (Upper Saddle River, 1999), pp. 143–144 and 146, fig. 6.1. Shelley Perlove and George S. Keyes (editors), Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections (South Bend, Ind: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), pp. 114, fig. 2. 
William W. Robinson with contributions by Susan Anderson, Drawings from the Age of Bruegel, Rubens, and Rembrandt: Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge: Harvard Art Museums, 2016), under cat. 39, figure 1, p. 142.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Jacques de Gheyn II / Dutch, 1565-1629
    Date
    c. 1605
    Medium
    Pen and black iron gall ink on tan laid paper
    Dimensions
    23 × 26 cm (9 1/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    pen and ink drawings
    Place
    Netherlands
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of Tiffany and Margaret Blake
    Accession no.
    1959.2

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