About This Artwork

Ambroise Dubois
Flemish, 1542/43-1614/15

The Goatherd Lamon Handing the Infant Daphnis to his Wife Myrtele, after 1560

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, with black chalk, heightened with white gouache, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laid card
269 x 375 mm
Restricted gift of the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation, 1973.154

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 48-49, cat. 23 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim.

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, "17th Century French Drawings from Fontainebleau to the Louvre," December 13, 1989-January 23, 1990; Cambridge, Mass., the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, February 24-April 18, 1990.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1985-1986.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "In Context: Recent Acquisitions to the Regenstein Collection, February 20-April 28, 1995.

Publication History

Sylvie Beguin, L’Ecole de Fontainebleau (Paris, 1972-1973), no. 87.

Harold Joachim, French Drawings of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Chicago, 1977), no. 1C2.

Sylvie Beguin, "L’art de peinture et de sculpture d’Ambroise Dubois à Fontainebleau," La Revue du Louvre, 29 (1979), p. 233, no. 13.

Ownership History

Nourri [a letter from Dominique Cordellier of June 26, 1997 in the curatorial file]. Jan Baptista de Graaf (died 1804), Amsterdam [Lugt 1120]. Sold by William H. Schab Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1973.