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Paul Before Felix
Provenance
Given by the artist to Dr. Munro [1792 auc. cat.]. (John?) Greenwood; sold, Apr. 30, 1792, lot 48. W. Willett, 1862. Edward Cheney [inscription and initials on the reverse]. F. Capel Cure; sold, Sotheby’s, London, May 15, 1905, lot 99, to Harvey [London 1975 auc. cat.]. Sold, Christie’s, London, June 17, 1975, lot 59, to P. & D. Colnaghi, London, for Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2011.
Exhibition history
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. 38, cat. 39 (ill.).
Publications
A.P. Oppe, The Drawings of William Hogarth (New York, 1948), p. 46. Clovis Whitfield, “William Hogarth’s ‘Paul Before Felix’ at Lincoln’s Inn,” Burlington Magazine 113 (Mar. 1971), p. 210, fig. 54. Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 68, cat. 39 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- William Hogarth / English, 1697–1764
- Date
- c. 1751
- Medium
- Various red chalks on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 39.5 × 51.5 cm (15 9/16 × 20 5/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- prints and drawing
- Place
- England
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection in memory of Lt. Col. Charles Albert Appel
- Accession no.
- 2011.641
More by William Hogarth in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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