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Landscape with the Sacrifice of Isaac within a Decorative Border of Plants and Animals
by Hans Bol
Inscriptions
Signed and dated in center, in image, in pen and brown ink: "HBol 1584"
Exhibition history
Paris, Galerie R. G. Michel, Dessins Anciens et Modernes, Dec. 1973, p. 4, cat. 5 (ill.). London, Kate de Rothschild Fine Art, Master Drawings, July 8–13, 2001, pp. 6–7, cat. 2 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 200 (ill.), 201-2, 290, 329, cat. 71, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.
Publications
Karel G. Boon, The Netherlandish and German Drawings of the XVth and XVIth Centuries of the Frits Lugt Collection (Paris, 1992), pp. 37–38, under no. 20, note 17. Jane Shoaf Turner, Rembrandt’s World: Dutch Drawings from the Clement C. Moore Collection, exh. cat. (New York: The Morgan Library and Museum, 2012), under no. 2, note 1, p. 203. Ursula Mielke, with Stefaan Hautekeete, The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings, and Woodcuts 1450–1700, Hans Bol part I (Amsterdam, Sound and Vision, 2015), p. 153. Jane Shoaf Turner in Home and Abroad, Dutch and Flemish Landscape Drawings from the John and Marine van Vlissingen Art Foundation, eds. Jane Shoaf Turner and Robert-Jan te Rijdt, exh. cat. (Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles: B.C.D. Group N.V., 2015), p. 18, under note 1, p. 237.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Hans Bol / Netherlandish, 1534-1593
- Date
- 1584
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brown and gray washes on ivory laid paper, incised with a stylus for transfer
- Dimensions
- 14.5 × 21.2 cm (5 3/4 × 8 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Netherlands
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Dorothy Harza in memory of Laura Harza
- Accession no.
- 2001.322
Provenance
Galerie R. G. Michel, Paris, by 1973 [Paris 1973]. Mathias Komor to Robert M. Light, Boston and Santa Barbara, Calif.; to Otto Nauman, Ltd., New York [fax from Otto Nauman dated Aug. 23, 2001 in curatorial file]; sold to Christopher Rupp, New York [Nauman fax]. Sold, Sotheby’s, New York, Jan. 23, 2001, lot 108. Sold by Kate de Rothschild, London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2001.
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Hans Bol1584 · Drawing
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-00005825
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