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Abigail
Inscriptions
Signed recto, lower left, in pen and ink: "Maerten van/ Heemskerck/inventor"; inscribed, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "Abÿgael" (both now faint but legible in ultraviolet light); inscribed verso, center, in graphite: "41911"; lower right, in graphite: "3" (upside down)
Provenance
John McGowan (died 1803), Edinburgh; possibly sold, Jan. 26–Feb. 4, 1804. Henry Reveley (1737–1798), North Wales, England; possibly sold, Christie’s, London May 11–12, 1852. Hamilton, London [according to inscription by Roupell]. Robert Prioleau Roupell (1798–1886), London [stamp (Lugt 2234), verso upper left in black]; sold, Christie's, London, July 12–14, 1887, lot 999. Private collector; sold, Karl & Faber, Munich, Nov. 16–17, 1959, lot 110. Sold by Richard Zinser, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1961.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958–1983, July 24–Sept. 30, 1985, pp. 72–73, cat. 27 (ill.); also the St. Louis Art Museum, Mar. 10–May 16, 1986. Milwaukee Art Museum, Old Master Drawings from Area Collections, 1997, pp. 12 and 27, cat. 13 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 187, 188-89 (ill.), 190-91, 198, 301, cat. 67, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.
Publications
Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Mary Tavener Holmes, Fritz Koreny, Donald Posner, Duncan Robinson, The Robert Lehman Collection VII: Fifteenth to Eighteenth-Century European Drawings: Central Europe, The Netherlands, France, England (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999), see no. 29 (ill p. 134.) The New Hollstein Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts 1450–1700, Philips Galle, 4 vols., Compiled by Manfred Sellink and Marjolein Leesberg, ed. Manfred Sellink (Rotterdam: Sound and Vision Publishers, 2001 in cooperation with the Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam), vol. 1, no. 133, p. 188.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Maarten van Heemskerck / Netherlandish, 1498-1574
- Date
- c. 1560
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink on ivory laid paper, incised with stylus for transfer
- Dimensions
- 19.7 × 25.2 cm (7 13/16 × 9 15/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Netherlands
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Simeon B. Williams Fund
- Accession no.
- 1961.33
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