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Prints and Drawings

1672/88

Daniël Mijtens, the Younger
Dutch, 1644-1688

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Daniel Mytens, II
Title: Male Nude Seen from Behind
Place: Netherlands (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1672–1688
Medium: Red chalk, heightened with white chalk, with traces of black chalk, on tan laid paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower center: "Mijtens" [or Meytens]; inscribed verso, lower left, in graphite: "–/T"; lower right, in graphite: "1169"; center, in graphite: "D. Mijtens"
Dimensions: 38 × 49.2 cm (15 × 19 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
Reference Number: 2019.854
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Frédéric Louis Bastet, Jan Frederik Heijbroek, De verzameling van Mr. Carel Vosmaer (Amsterdam: Rijksprentenkabinet, 1989), p. 95, under no. 53.

Delft, Technische Hogeschool, Gebouw voor Decoratieve Kunst, Een Keuze uit de Tekeningen-Collectie van De Heer W.B. Wouters, 1962, no. 10 (as Rubens).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age”, September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 117, 120 (ill.), 306, 333, cat. 37, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, “Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection”, August 4 - November 28, 2021.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection”, Berkeley, CA, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, August 4 - November 28, 2021.

W.B. Wouters, Delft. Sold, Sotheby’s Amsterdam, Nov. 2, 2004, lot 45. Paul Russell, Amsterdam; sold through Thomas Williams, London, to Richard and Mary Gray, Chicago, 2017; promised to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.

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