Saint Dominic Reading

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Prints and Drawings

c. 1573

Bartholomaeus Spranger
Flemish, 1546-1611

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Artist: Bartholomaeus Spranger
Title: Saint Dominic Reading
Origin: Flanders
Date: 1568–1578
Medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash with touches of opaque white watercolor over traces of black chalk on cream laid paper
Dimensions: 306 × 186 mm
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Henry C. Woods and Print and Drawing Purchase Fund
Reference Number: 1979.119

Princeton, N.J., The Art Museum, Princeton University, "Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire 1540-1680: A Selection from North American Collections," October 3-November 21, 1982, cat. 48; also traveled to The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., January 27-April 11, 1983 and the Museum of Art at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, April 23-June 19, 1983.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Erotic Gold: The Art and Life of Bartholomäus Spranger 1546-1611", November 3, 2014 - February 1, 2015.

Sold, Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, November 1978, lot 149, as by Jan Philip van Boeckhorst. Sold by Richard J. Collins, Inc., New York, to the Art Institute, 1979.

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