The Rape of Europa

Prints and Drawings

1635/40

Cornelis Schut
Flemish, 1597-1655

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Cornelis Schut, I
Title: The Rape of Europa
Place: Flanders (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1635–1640
Medium: Black chalk, with touches of white chalk, on ivory laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso, lower center in graphite: "e) L'enlèvement d'Europe"
Dimensions: 26.3 × 38.9 cm (10 3/8 × 15 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. William O. Hunt and Henry Wood funds
Reference Number: 2015.210
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The Art Institute of Chicago, “Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age”, September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 167, 169 (ill.), 315, 336, cat. 60, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

By descent to the artist’s nephew, from 1655. Private collection, Aix en Provence, to 2015; sold by Galerie Laura Pecheur, Paris, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2015.

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