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A Forest Interior, with a Seated Figure
Inscriptions
Signed, lower right: "HSL; inscribed verso, lower margin, in brown ink: "13" (upside down)
Exhibition history
London, Alfred Brod Gallery, Old Master Dawings, Jan. 28–Feb. 20, 1965, cat. 92 (illus.). Amsterdam, Kunsthandel Gebr. Douwes, Vijf Eeuwen Schilderijen, Aquarellen en Tekeningen, winter. 1966, n.p., cat. 48 (ill.). Salzburg, Museumpavillon in Mirabellgarten, July 12–Sept. 12, 1972; Niederländische Kunst aus dem Goldenen Jahrhundert: Gemälde und Zeichnungen im Umkreis grosser Meister aus der Sammlung F. C. Butôt, 118–19 (ill.); also Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Nov. 26, 1972–Jan. 14, 1973. Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Hollandse en Vlaamse Kunst uit de 17e eeuw, Feb. 16 –Apr. 1, 1973, 120–21 (ill.). Munich, Sotheby's, A Selection of Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of F.C. Butôt, June 1989, no cat. 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. 259, 261 (ill.), 262, 315, cat. 106, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.
Publications
Laurens J. Bol and George S. Keyes, Netherlandish Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of F.C. Butôt, (London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981), p. 26, pp. 140–41, cat. 53 (ill.). W. Schulz, Herman Saftleven, Berlin/New York 1982, p. 419, cat. 1143, fig. 106. I. Fechter, “Munich: Die Sammlung F. C. Butôt,” Weltkunst 59, no. 12 (June 15, 1989): 1768.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Herman Saftleven / Dutch, 1609-1685
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- Black chalk and brush and brown wash, with touches of black crayon and traces of opaque white watercolor, ruled in pen and black ink at edges, on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 18.5 × 13 cm (7 5/16 × 5 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- Netherlands
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.1021
Provenance
[Two unidentified collector’s marks, verso]. Professor Einar Perman, Stockholm. Alfred Brod Gallery, London, by Jan. 1965 [London 1965]. Kunsthandel Gebr. Douwes, Amsterdam, by Dec. 1966 [Amsterdam 1966]; sold to Frans C. (known as F.C.) Butôt (1902–1992), Amsterdam; sold, Sotheby’s, Amsterdam, Nov. 16, 1993, lot 95, to a private collector; sold, Sotheby’s, London, July 7, 2011, lot 75, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
More by Herman Saftleven in museum collections
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