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The Baptism of Christ
Inscriptions
Inscribed verso, lower left, in light brown ink: "No. 90 T.P"; lower left, in graphite: "fm"
Provenance
Ralph Bernal, United Kingdom. Private collection, Amsterdam. Bob Haboldt, New York, by 1987 [Chong 1987]. Paul Russell, Amsterdam; sold through Thomas Williams, London, to Richard and Mary L. Gray as trustees of the Gray Collection Trust, Oct. 12, 2017; promised to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 89, 91 (ill.), 307, cat. 28, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al. UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, "Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection", August 4 - November 28, 2021.
Publications
Alan Chong, 'The Drawings of Cornelis van Poelenburch', Master Drawings (1987), Vol. 25, 1, p. 51, no. 124A, Pl. 29. Nicolette Sluijter-Seiffert, Cornelis van Poelenburch, 1694/5–1667: The Paintings, Oculi: Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries, Vol. 15, trans. Jennifer M. Milian and Katy Kist (Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016), p. 307, under no. 52 (listed as New York/Paris, Haboldt & Co, 1989).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Cornelis van Poelenburch / Dutch, 1594/95-1667
- Date
- 1641/67
- Medium
- Red chalk on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 18.9 × 28.1 cm (7 1/2 × 11 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- Netherlands
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Accession no.
- 2019.858
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