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