View of Douai

Prints and Drawings

1667–70

Adam Frans van der Meulen
Flemish, 1632-1690

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Frans van der Meulen
Title: View of Douai
Place: Flanders (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1667–1670
Medium: Graphite, with watercolor, on ivory laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso, upper center, in graphite: "No 26"; center, in graphite: "Douai/ par van der Meulen"; lower center, in pen and black ink: "L’inscription ci dessus/ “de Douay 64.” est de la/ main de van der Meulen"; lower center, in pen and black ink: "No 26 and Vue de Douai/ par A. F. van der Meulen/ 1632–1690/ Lh. Eggiman"; lower right, in pen and black ink: "Vente Delteil 30 Mars 1916/No 252/ Vue de Douai par / van der Meulen"
Dimensions: 30.3 × 41.4 cm (11 15/16 × 16 5/16 in.)
Credit Line: Margaret Day Blake Endowment
Reference Number: 1992.134
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Art Institute of Chicago, The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present, Sept. 12–Oct. 31, 1999, no cat.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age”, September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 264, 267 (ill.), 305, 333 (ill.), cat. 109, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

Sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Mar. 30, 1916, lot 252 to Charles Eggiman (1863–1948) [stamp (Lugt 530), recto, lower left and verso, lower center, in black]. Sold by Bruno de Bayser, Paris, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1992.

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