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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    A Forest Interior, with a Seated Figure by Herman Saftleven
    Herman Saftleven. A Forest Interior, with a Seated Figure, n.d.. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00006101

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    A Forest Interior, with a Seated Figure

    by Herman Saftleven

    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

    • Landscape with the Village of Schenkenschanz, Gelderland by Herman Saftleven

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      Herman Saftleven

      1600s · Drawing

      Museum collection · via the Cleveland Museum of ArtAT-00011510

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