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    Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery
    Gerbrand van den Eeckhout. Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery, 1650/74. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00002193

    Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery

    by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed recto, center, in pen and brown ink: “‘t vrouwtien in overspel.”; verso, center, in graphite: “P. Koning”; lower center: “gek. Fanenae (?) Dec ‘20”

    Provenance

    Sold by Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, to Dr. Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (1863-1930), The Hague [stamp (Lugt 561), verso, lower center, in brown], 1920; sold, Boerner, Leipzig, Nov. 4, 1931, lot. 130 (as Philips Koninck), to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1931.

    Exhibition history

    The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, Verzameling Dr. C. Hofstede de Groot III: schilderijen, teekeningen en kunstnijverheid, 16 August–16 September 1930, cat. 64. (as Philips de Koningh). Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, Lent from American Collections, June 1 to November 1, 1933, p. 87, cat. 811 (as Philips de Koningh). Art Institute of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings by Rembrandt and His Circle, Dec. 19, 1935–Jan. 19, 1936, p. 40, cat. 55 (as Philips Koninck). Worcester Art Museum, Rembrandt and his Circle, A Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings, Feb. 4–Mar. 1, 1936, p. 46-47, no. 55. Art Institute of Chicago, "Rembrandt After Three Hundred Years," Oct. 25-Dec. 7, 1969, pp. 189 and 244 (ill.), no. 168 ; also Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Dec. 22, 1969-Feb. 1, 1970, and Detroit Institute of Arts, Feb. 24-Apr. 5, 1970 (as Gerbrand van den Eeckhout). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 182 (ill.), 184-85, 295, cat. 65, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

    Publications

    Felix Becker, Handzeichnungen Holländischer Meister, aus der Sammlung Dr. C. Hofstede de Groot im Haag, (Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1923), no. 22 (as Philips Koninck). Frits Lugt, Inventaire général des dessins des écoles du Nord; vol III, École hollandaise Rembrandt, ses élèves, ses imitateurs, ses copistes (Paris, 1933), pp. 40–41, under no. 1225. Horst Gerson, Philips Koninck: ein Beitrag zur Erforschung der Holländischen Malerei des XVII Jahrhunderts (Berlin, 1936), pp. 175–176, Z.LXXV (as closer to Van den Eeckhout). M. D. Henkel, Tekeningen van Rembrandt en zijn school, Catalogus van de Nederlandse Tekeningen in het Rijksmuseum te Amsterdam, 1943, p. 75, under no. 6. Werner Sumowski, Bemerkungen zu Otto Beneschs Corpus der Rembrandt-zeichnungen, II (Bad Pyrmont: 1961), p. 11, under no. 533 (as school of Rembrandt, related to painting by Gerbrandt van den Eeckhout). Wolfgang Wegner, “Bemerkungen zu Zeichnungen Rembrandts und seiner Schule in der Albertina,” Albertina Studien 5/6 (1967/68), p. 151 (c. 1664). Werner Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, ed. And trans. Walter L. Strauss (New York: Abaris Books, 1981), vol. 3, 643 (as Gerbrand van den Eekhout).

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Gerbrand van den Eeckhout / Dutch 1621-1674
    Date
    1650/74
    Medium
    Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, on cream laid paper
    Dimensions
    14.5 × 19.7 cm (5 3/4 × 7 13/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    pen and ink drawings
    Place
    Netherlands
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of the Print and Drawing Club
    Accession no.
    1931.936

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