Object Information

Antwerp Mannerist (Master of the Antwerp Adoration group)
Netherlandish

King David Receiving the Cistern Water of Bethlehem, 1515/20

Oil on panel, transferred to canvas
73.5 x 27.5 cm (28 7/8 x 10 7/8 in.)
Image: 72.7 x 26.8 cm (28 5/8 x 10 9/16 in.)
Gift of Mrs. Charles L. Hutchinson, 1936.127

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Salomon Reinach, Répertoire de peintures du moyen âge et de la renaissance (1280–1580), vol. 2, Paris, 1907, p. 13, no. 1 (ill.; line drawing).

John La Farge, “Art in America: Two Works Formerly Attributed to Herri met de Bles,” Burlington Magazine 12 (1908), pp. 387–88 (ill. opp. p. 387).

“A Tour of the World of Art in 150 Masterpieces,” Masterpieces 1 (1950), p. 61 (ill. 1936.126).

The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, 1961, p. 300.

Giovanni Carandente, Collections d’Italie, Répertoire 3, Brussels, 1968, p. 14.

Peter van den Brink, in Jochen Sander, Gold, Weihrauch und Myrrhe: Die “von Grootesche Anbetung der Heiligen Drei Könige,” exh. cat., Frankfurt, Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, 2001, pp. 58, 60–61 (ill.).

Martha Wolff, “Hebrew Kings and Antwerp Mannerists,” in Collected Opinions: Essays on Netherlandish Art in Honor of Alfred Bader, ed. Volker Manuth and Axel Rüger, London, 2004, pp. 279–93, figs. 1, 5–6.

Martha Wolff in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 129-35, ill.

Ownership History

Durand-Ruel, Paris, by 1880/82 [Durand-Ruel stockbook for these years; letter from Caroline Durand-Ruel Godfroy, Oct. 19, 1999, in curatorial file]; sold to Charles L. Hutchinson (d. 1924), Chicago, May 8, 1890 [shipped to Chicago on July 16, 1890, Art Institute Archive]; by descent to his widow, Frances Kinsley Hutchinson (d. 1936), Chicago; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1936.