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Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the Fiery Furnace
Provenance
Christopher Wood Gallery, London. Private collection, London and New York. Sold, Christie’s, London, Nov. 5, 1993, lot 128. Barry Friedman Ltd, New York, 2000. The Hearn Family Trust, New York, by Oct. 2005 [Birmingham 2005 exh. cat.]; sold through Mireille Mosler, Ltd., New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, lower left corner, in pen and black ink: "10 SS 63"
Exhibition history
London, The Gallery, Berners Street, Winter Exhibition, Feb. 1863, cat. 40. Dudley Gallery, Sixth General Exhibition of Water-Color Drawings, Jan. 1870, cat. 45 (as The Three Holy Children in the Fiery Furnace). London, Geffrye Museum, Solomon. A Family of Painters, Nov. 8–Dec. 31, 1985, cat. 46, p. 68 (ill.); Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Jan. 18–Mar. 9, 1986. Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Love Revealed: Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites, Oct. 1, 2005–Jan. 15, 2006, cat. 40, pp. 90–91 (ill.); Munich, Museum Villa Stuck, Mar. 9–June 18, 2006; The London Jewish Museum of Art, Ben Uri Gallery, Sept. 11–Nov. 26 2006.
Publications
W.M. Rossetti, Fine Art Quarterly Review I (May 1863), p. 195. “Dudley Gallery. Sixth General Exhibition of Drawings,” The Art-Journal (Mar. 1, 1870), p. 87. Atheneum (Feb. 12, 1870), p. 234. Illustrated London News (Feb. 12, 1870), pp. 181–82. The Spectator (Feb. 19, 1870), p. 237. Simon Reynolds, The Vision of Simeon Solomon (England: Stroud, 1984), pl. 31, p. 176. Gayle Marie Seymour, “The Life and Work of Simeon Solomon (1840–1905),” 1986, dissertation University of California, Santa Barbara, pp. 91, 318, fig. 95. Jasmine Allen, “Simeon Solomon and Stained Glass,” Pre-Raphaelite Society Review, XXVIII:3 (Autumn 2020), pp. 25–26, fig. 3.5.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Simeon Solomon / British, 1840-1905
- Date
- Oct. 1863
- Medium
- Watercolor and opaque watercolor, with traces of graphite, on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 33 × 22.8 cm (13 × 9 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawing
- Place
- United Kingdom
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Regenstein Endowment Fund
- Accession no.
- 2022.274
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