AT-00006160
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The Rape of Europa
Inscriptions
Inscribed verso, lower center in graphite: "e) L'enlèvement d'Europe"
Provenance
By descent to the artist’s nephew, from 1655. Private collection, Aix en Provence, to 2015; sold by Galerie Laura Pecheur, Paris, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2015.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 167, 169 (ill.), 315, 336, cat. 60, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Cornelis Schut / Flemish, 1597-1655
- Date
- 1635/40
- Medium
- Black chalk, with touches of white chalk, on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 26.3 × 38.9 cm (10 3/8 × 15 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- Flanders
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. William O. Hunt and Henry Wood funds
- Accession no.
- 2015.210
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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-00006160
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