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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    A Camel
    Cornelis Saftleven. A Camel, 1646. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00003236

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    A Camel

    by Cornelis Saftleven

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed recto, upper center, in black chalk: “Sin San 1646"; lower center, in black chalk: "CS"

    Provenance

    John Malcolm; by descent to Alfred Gathorne-Hardy; by descent to Geoffrey Gathorne-Hardy; by descent to Robert Gathorne-Hardy; sold, Sotheby-Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, May 3, 1976, lot 6.  British Rail Pension Fund; sold by Lexbourne Ltd., London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.

    Exhibition history

    London, P&D Colnaghi, Loan Exhibition of Drawings by Old Masters from the Collection of Mr. Geoffrey Gathorne-Hardy, Oct. 12–Nov. 5 1971, cat. 49, pl. XXX, also Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Nov. 20–Jan. 2 1972. Art Institute of Chicago, New Acquisitions: Old Master Drawings, Dec. 2, 1989–June 8, 1990, no cat. Art Institute of Chicago, From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by the Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 10, 1991–Jan. 5, 1992, n.p., cat. 15; also New York, Frick Collection, Apr. 23–July 7, 1991. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 18-19, 20-21 (ill.), 45n6, 314, 335 (ill.), cat. 1, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

    Publications

    A.E. Gathorne- Hardy, Descriptive catalogue of drawings by the old masters in the possession of the Hon. A. E. Gathorne-Hardy, 77 Cadogan Square (Ballantyne Press, 1902), no. 85. Wolfgang Schulz, Cornelis Saftleven 1607–1681: Leben und Werke (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1978), p. 150, cat. 375. Shelley Perlove and George S. Keyes (editors), Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), pp. 115, 178, no 71, 179 (ill.).

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Cornelis Saftleven / Dutch, 1607-1681
    Date
    1646
    Medium
    Black chalk and brush and black wash, with touches of brown and ochre chalk, on ivory laid paper
    Dimensions
    20.4 × 31.3 cm (8 1/16 × 12 3/8 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    ink or chalk wash
    Place
    Holland
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Clarence Buckingham Collection
    Accession no.
    1989.201

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