Noah's Sacrifice, plate IX from The Creation and Early History of Man

Prints and Drawings

1606

Jan Wierix
Flemish, 1549-c. 1620

After surviving the Flood, Noah’s family gives thanks by sacrificing an animal. Antwerp-born Jan Wierix showed this ancient scene of thanksgiving from above, with an almost all-seeing view of the family, their sacrifice, God appearing in a cloud, and the vessel of their salvation (the ark) shown in the background at left. This subject is one of 20 in the series titled The Creation and Early History of Man. The delicacy of the line work and the drawing’s presentation on the durable material of vellum suggest that Wierix intended this series of miniature drawings to serve as treasured possessions for a devoted collector of fine and precious things.

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Artist: Jan Wierix
Title: Noah's Sacrifice, plate IX from The Creation and Early History of Man
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.: 1606
Medium: Pen and brown ink on parchment
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "Iohan: Wiricx / Inve"; inscribed verso, lower left, in graphite: "No 12 20 / 10"
Dimensions: 9.4 × 12.3 cm (3 3/4 × 4 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2013.1046
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Carl van de Velde, Jan Wierix: The Creation and the Early History of Man, 1607–1608, exh. cat. (New York, Richard L. Feigen, 1990), p. 75, no. 19a.

Munich, Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel, Jan Wierix, 1549–1620: Nine Drawings from the Creation and the Early History of Man, 1993, p. 13, cat. 9.
Art Institute of Chicago, Gifts of a Lifetime: 49 Old Masters Drawings from the Dorothy Braude Edinburg Collection, Dec. 11,1998–Mar. 28,1999, checklist 10.
Art Institute of Chicago, Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 43, cat. 18 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, Mar. 15–June 15, 2014, no cat.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age”, September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 27, 28 (ill.), 30, 320, 333, cat. 3, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

Possibly, Emperor Rudolf II (1552–1611), Prague. Baron Adalbart von Lanna (1836–1909), Prague [stamp (Lugt 2773), verso, lower left, in brown]; sold, Gutekunst, Stuttgart, May 6–11, 1910, lot 596. Mrs. Toni Straus-Negbaur (died 1942), Berlin-Grunewald [stamp (Lugt 2459a), verso, lower left, in black]; sold, Cassirer, Berlin, Nov. 25–26, 1930, lot 118. Private collection, Germany. Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel, Munich, by 1993; sold to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, Mass, Jan. 11, 1994; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

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