Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004290St. Paul Shaking off the Viper
Provenance
Mrs. E. K. Rule (died around 1959) [letter from Helmut von Erffa of August 8, 1970 in curatorial file]. Sold by Mrs. Robert Frank, London, to the Art Institute, 1960.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Quarter Century of Collecting: Drawings Given to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1944-1970 by Margaret Day Blake," April 28-June 7, 1970, n.p., cat. 25 (ill.), as "The Witch of Endor."
Publications
Esther Sparks, "St. Paul Shaking off the Viper: An Early Romantic Series by Benjamin West," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies (March 1971), pp. 59-65, fig. 2. Helmut von Erffa and Allen Staley, The Paintings of Benjamin West (New Haven, Conn., 1986), p. 385.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Benjamin West / American, 1738-1820
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink with brush and tan wash, on cream laid paper with blue fibers tipped onto cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 30.4 × 37.6 cm (12 × 14 13/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Margaret Day Blake
- Accession no.
- 1960.19
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