A Huntsman with a Dead Hare and a Dog (Study for "Terra")

Prints and Drawings

1590/95

Jacques de Gheyn II
Dutch, 1565-1629

One of a group of four allegorical representations of the elements, this drawing reflects Jacques de Gheyn II’s innovative approach to the subject. Instead of gods and goddesses, De Gheyn chose earthly figures like a hunter to characterize Earth (Terra), a falconer to represent Air, a fisherman as Water, and a woman cooking game as Fire. The humble image belies his careful incorporation of different media: he layered ink and ink wash over a preliminary sketch executed in charcoal.

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Artist: Jacob de Gheyn, II
Title: A Huntsman with a Dead Hare and a Dog (Study for "Terra")
Place: Netherlands (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.: 1590–1595
Medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and gray wash, over touches of charcoal, ruled with pen and black ink, on ivory laid paper, incised with a stylus for transfer, laid down on cream laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower left corner, in pen and dark brown ink: "8"; verso, upper center, in red pencil: "Lot 439"; center, in graphite: "DeGheyn"; center, in graphite: "gegens Karletzen (?) dem Stiche Host. 49"; lower center, in graphite" "85"; lower margin, in graphite: "De Gheyn"; lower right, in blue pencil: "32"
Dimensions: Primary support: 16.7 × 13.7 cm (6 5/8 × 5 7/16 in.); Secondary support: 18.9 × 15.6 cm (7 1/2 × 6 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Olivia Shaler Swan Fund
Reference Number: 1969.272
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C. F. G. R. Schwerdt, Hunting, Hawking, Shooting, illustrated in a catalogue of books, manuscripts, prints and drawings collected by C. F. G. R. Schwerdt, vol. 3 (London: Waterlow and Sons, 1928; reprint, Hildescheim, Zürich, New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1985), p. 208.
I. Q. van Regteren Altena, Jacques de Gheyn, Three Generations (The Hague: Martinus Nijfoff, 1983), II: p. 48, no. 175, III: pl. 47.
Jan Piet Filedt Kok, “Jacques de Gheyn II Engraver, Designer and Publisher–II: A Catalogue,” Print Quarterly 7, no. 4 (December 1990), under cat. Nos. 47–50, p. 376.
Ilja Veldman, “Goltzius’ Zintuigen, Seizoenen, Elementen, Planeten en Vier tijden van de dag: van allegorie naar genre-voorstelling,” Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 42/43 (1991–92), p. 334 (under note 58).
The New Hollstein Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts 1450–1700, The De Gheyn Family, 2 vols. Compiled by Jan Piet Filedt Kok and Marjolein Leesberg, ed. Ger Luijten (Rotterdam: Sound and Vision Publishers, 2000 in cooperation with the Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam) vol. I, no. 133, p. 199 (ill. p. 202).

Düsseldorf, C. G. Boerner, Ausgewählte Handzeichnungn aus Vier Jahrhunderten, 1964, cat. 64.
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Jacques de Gheyn II, Drawings, Dec. 13, 1985–Sept. 2, 1986, pp. 39–40, cat. 5 (ill.); also Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, Sept. 3–Nov. 5, 1986.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age”, September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 209, 211 (ill.), 212, 221, 298, cat. 75, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

Charles Francis George Richard Schwerdt (1862–1939), Old Alresford House, Hants, England, by 1928 [Schwerdt 1928]; sold, Sotheby’s, London, June 27, 1939, lot 1247, to Wheeler [Altena 1983]. H. Eisenmann [Altena 1983]; sold, Sotheby’s, London, Mar. 11, 1964, lot 195, to C. G. Boerner, Düsseldorf; sold, C. G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, Feb. 10–28. 1966, lot 12. Sold by Paul Drey Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1969.

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