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The Holy Family Resting on the Flight into Egypt
Inscriptions
Signed recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "J. de Bellange"; inscribed verso: "M.la H. / Mory / Le baroy / Lav ---"
Exhibition history
Bristol Art Museum, "French Art 1600-1800," October 25-December 10, 1938, cat. 25. London, Royal Academy of Arts, "Drawings by Old Masters," August 13-October 25, 1953, cat. 359. New York, Charles E. Slatkin Gallery, "Selected Drawings," 1966, cat. 20. Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, "French Master Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries in North American Collections," September 2-October 15, 1972, cat. 4; traveled to Ottawa, the National Gallery of Canada, November 3-December 17, 1972; San Francisco, the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, January 12-March 11, 1973; and the New York Cultural Center, April 4-May 13, 1973. The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 52-53, cat. 25 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim. Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines Art Center, "The Etchings of Jacques Bellange," October 6-November 16, 1975, cat. 44; traveled to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, December 12-February 15, 1976, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, March 23-May 6, 1976. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 82-83, cat. 32 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi. Nancy, France, Musée Historique Lorrain, "L'Art Lorraine au Temps de Jacques Callot," June 15-September 15, 1992, cat. 46. The Art Institute of Chicago,"Recent Acquisitions to the Regenstein Collection: Thomas Gainsborough and Eighteenth-Century Portraits of the Common Man," February 20-April 28, 1995. Rennes, France, Musée des Beaux-Arts, "Jacques Bellange," February 16-May 14, 2001, cat. 79.
Publications
François Pariset, "Dessins de Jacques de Bellange," La Critica d'Arte (January 1, 1950), p. 352 (ill.). Frits Lugt, Marques de Collections supp. (Paris, 1956), p. 244. Art Quarterly (1967), p. 66 (ill.). Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Seventeenth Century (Chicago, 1979), no. 1A1. Shelley Perlove and George S. Keyes (editors). Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), pp. 223, 228 no. 90, 229 (ill.), 230, 231
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jacques Bellange / French, c. 1575-1616
- Date
- 1610/17
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with charcoal, heightened with white gouache, over black chalk, on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 24 × 20 cm (9 1/2 × 7 7/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Helen Regenstein Collection
- Accession no.
- 1967.17R
Provenance
Berkeley Sheffield, Doncaster [Paris 1937 auc. cat.]. Louis Deglatigny (died 1936), Rouen; sold, Hotel Drouot, Paris, June 14-15, 1937, Deglatigny sale, lot 45. Maurice Gobin, Paris [Paris 1950]. Dr. Ludwig Burchard, London, by October 1938-at least 1953 [Bristol 1938; London 1953]. Sold by Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York, to the Art Institute, 1967.
More by Jacques Bellange in museum collections
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