The Cleveland Museum of Art

• Provenance
  (Christie's, London, E. Henstridge sale, April 11, 1930, no. 91, sold to Rothschild)

  (A. G. von Frey [Alexander von Frey])

  Nov. 12, 1930 - June 10, 1937

  (Thos. Agnew & Sons, London).

  June 10, 1937 -

  G. Huntington Hartford (1911-2008), New York.

  - May 15, 1972

  (Newhouse Galleries, New York)

  May 15, 1972 - Feb. 13, 1973

  (Thos. Agnew & Sons, London)

  Private collection

  1979

  (Thos. Agnew and Sons, London)

  1980

  Private collection, Portugal.

  1983

  (Sotheby's, London, sale, June 23, 1983, no. 40, ill.)

  1983

  (Newhouse Galleries, New York), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art.

  Provenance Footnotes

  1 The collector and art dealer Alexander von Frey (1882-1951), a Hungarian national, began to amass his art collection in the 1920s. Throughout the 1930s to end of World War II, he lived in Berlin, Vienna, Paris, and Lucerne. While living in Lucerne in the mid-1940s, he began to use the name A. C. de Frey. In 1948, de Frey and his wife, Erika, moved to the United States where they lived in New York and Vermont (see: https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/350/)During WWII Frey is known to have been involved in the trading of confiscated art; however there is no suggestion that 1983.69 came into von Frey's possession in this manner.
• Citations
  Larsen, Erik. P.P. Rubens. With a Complete Catalogue of his Works in America. Antwerp: De Sikkel, 1952. Mentioned: p. 200, under no. 112

  Bordley, Rogers. Rubens ou Snyders? Paris: La Nef de Paris, 1956. Mentioned: pp. 85, 147; Reproduced: fig. 81 (as by Snyders)

  The Burlington Magazine 65 (1973) Mentioned: p. 53; reproduced: fig. 51

  Díaz Padrón, Matías. In Pedro Pablo Rubens (1577-1640): exposición homenaje. Exh. cat. Madrid: Palacio de Velazquez, published by Madrid: Dirección General del Patrimonio Artistico, Archivos y Museos, 1977. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 110, no. 94

  Jaffé, Michael. "Exhibitions for the Rubens Year, III." The Burlington Magazine 120 no. 902 (1978) Mentioned: p. 346, no. 94

  Held, Julius S. The Oil Sketches of Peter Paul Rubens: A Critical Catalogue. 2 vols. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1979. Mentioned: vol. 1, pp. 309-310, no. 225; Reproduced: vol. 2, pl. 235

  The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71 (1984) Mentioned: p. 68, no. 23; Reproduced: p. 69

  Turner, Evan H. "Year in Review for 1983." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 2 (1984): 38-79. Referenced: cat. no. 23, p. 68, Reproduced: p. 69 www.jstor.org

  Adler, Wolfgang, and Arnout Balis. Landscapes and Hunting Scenes (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchardt, pt. 18), vol. 2: Arnout Balis, Rubens Hunting Scenes. London: H. Miller, 1986. Mentioned: pp. 263-264; Reproduced: fig. 133

  Museo de San Carlos, and Palazzo dei diamanti (Ferrara, Italy). Rubens y su siglo. Mexico: Landucci/Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1999. Referenced: cat. no. 21

  Museo de San Carlos, and Palazzo dei diamanti (Ferrara, Italy). Rubens y su siglo. Mexico: Landucci/Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1999. Reproduced: p. 120-122, no. 21

  Sutton, Peter C., Marjorie E. Wieseman, and Nico van Hout. Drawn by the Brush: Oil Sketches by Peter Paul Rubens. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004. Referenced: cat. no. 41

  Weller, Dennis P. Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings. Raleigh, N.C.: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2009. Mentioned: p. 299; Reproduced p. 300, fig. 62A
• Exhibition History
  Drawn by the Brush: Oil Sketches by Peter Paul Rubens. Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT (October 2, 2004-January 30, 2005); Berkeley Museum of Art/Pacific Film Archive, CA (March 2-May 22, 2005); The Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH (organizer) (June 11-September 11, 2005).

  Rubens and His Time. Museo de San Carlos (INBA) (November 5, 1998-February 28, 1999).

  The Year in Review for 1983. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 22-April 8, 1984).
• Cite this Page
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