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Kneeling Monk Holding a Crucifix
Inscriptions
Signed and inscribed, recto lower right, in image above feet, in black chalk: “CS / 1630”; verso, in graphite: "11 ⅜ x 7 ⅜"; inscribed by William Gurley, in pen and black ink: "Cornelius Saftleven/ 1607–1682"
Provenance
Horace Stone Wilcocks, Plymouth, England; sold, Sotheby’s, June 5–6, 1913, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower left, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, lower center, in black].
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 112, 114 (ill.), 314, 336 (ill.), cat. 34, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Cornelis Saftleven / Dutch, 1607-1681
- Date
- 1630
- Medium
- Black chalk on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 29 × 18.9 cm (11 7/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- Holland
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1922.1848
More by Cornelis Saftleven in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00004003
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