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Head of Medusa
Inscriptions
Signed and dated lower center, in pen and brown ink: "G Maes (twice): del: / 1680"
Exhibition history
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Splendor and Elegance: European Decorative Arts and Drawings from the Horace Wood Brock Collection, Jan. 22–May 17, 2009, pp. 96–7 (color ill.), 155, cat. 93. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 273, 274 (ill.), 275-76, 305 cat. 111, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.
Publications
Burlington Magazine, advertisement for The Salon du Dessin, citing Galerie Didier Aaron, Paris as exhibitor (Mar. 2002), p. xxiv (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Godfried Maes / Flemish, 1649-1700
- Date
- 1680
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, with traces of black chalk, on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 24.5 × 18.1 cm (9 11/16 × 7 3/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Flanders
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Prints and Drawings Purchase Fund
- Accession no.
- 2018.59
Provenance
Sold, Sotheby’s, London, July 11, 2001, lot 39. Didier Aaron, Inc., New York. Horace Wood Brock, New York, by 2009. Sold by Stephen Ongpin, London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.
More by Godfried Maes in museum collections
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-00006179
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