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Study of a Male Nude
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, upper right, in graphite: "52"; verso, center, in graphite: "VESZ" (in rectangle); lower right: "A. van de Velde"
Provenance
Unknown collector [unidentified stamp, recto, lower left, in black]. Kurt Meissner (1909–2004), Zurich and Zolliken. British Rail Pension Fund; sold by Lexbourne Ltd., London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.
Exhibition history
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. 19; 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. 34, 121 (ill.), 122, 317, 336 (ill.), cat. 38, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.
Publications
Werner Sumowski, Handzeichnungen Alter Meister aus Schweizer Privatbesitz, exh. Cat., Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, January/February 1968, pp. 86–87, no. 185 (ill.). Stanford, Stanford Art Gallery, 2 November–14 December 1969; Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, 27 January–8 March 1970; New York, Finch College Museum of Art, 1 April–15 June 1970, Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Kurt Meissner (Stanford Art Book 10, Department of Art, Stanford University), cat. no. 74, p. 74 (ill.). Shelley Perlove and George S. Keyes (editors), Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), pp. 116, 188 no. 76, 189 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Adriaen van de Velde / Dutch, 1636-1672
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- Red chalk, over traces of charcoal, ruled in pen and brown at edges, on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 34 × 23.6 cm (13 7/16 × 9 5/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- Holland
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Accession no.
- 1989.204
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