Noah's Sacrifice, plate IX from The Creation and Early History of Man

Inscriptions

Signed recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "Iohan: Wiricx / Inve"; inscribed verso, lower left, in graphite: "No 12 20 / 10"

Provenance

Possibly, Emperor Rudolf II (1552–1611), Prague. Baron Adalbart von Lanna (1836–1909), Prague [stamp (Lugt 2773), verso, lower left, in brown]; sold, Gutekunst, Stuttgart, May 6–11, 1910, lot 596. Mrs. Toni Straus-Negbaur (died 1942), Berlin-Grunewald [stamp (Lugt 2459a), verso, lower left, in black]; sold, Cassirer, Berlin, Nov. 25–26, 1930, lot 118. Private collection, Germany. Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel, Munich, by 1993; sold to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, Mass, Jan. 11, 1994; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

Exhibition history

Munich, Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel, Jan Wierix, 1549–1620: Nine Drawings from the Creation and the Early History of Man, 1993, p. 13, cat. 9. Art Institute of Chicago, Gifts of a Lifetime: 49 Old Masters Drawings from the Dorothy Braude Edinburg Collection, Dec. 11,1998–Mar. 28,1999, checklist 10. Art Institute of Chicago, Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 43, cat. 18 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, Mar. 15–June 15, 2014, no cat. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 27, 28 (ill.), 30, 320, 333, cat. 3, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

Publications

Carl van de Velde, Jan Wierix: The Creation and the Early History of Man, 1607–1608, exh. cat. (New York, Richard L. Feigen, 1990), p. 75, no. 19a.

Quick Overview

Artist: Jan Wierix / Flemish, 1549-c. 1620
Date: 1606
Medium: Pen and brown ink on parchment
Dimensions: 9.4 × 12.3 cm (3 3/4 × 4 7/8 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: pen and ink drawings
Place: Flanders
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Accession no.: 2013.1046

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.