Study of a Male Nude

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Adriaen van de Velde
Dutch, 1636-1672

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Artist: Adriaen van de Velde
Title: Study of a Male Nude
Place: Holland (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.: 1636–1672
Medium: Red chalk, over traces of charcoal, ruled in pen and brown at edges, on cream laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, upper right, in graphite: "52"; verso, center, in graphite: "VESZ" (in rectangle); lower right: "A. van de Velde"
Dimensions: 34 × 23.6 cm (13 7/16 × 9 5/16 in.)
Credit Line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
Reference Number: 1989.204
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Werner Sumowski, Handzeichnungen Alter Meister aus Schweizer Privatbesitz, exh. Cat., Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, January/February 1968, pp. 86–87, no. 185 (ill.).
Stanford, Stanford Art Gallery, 2 November–14 December 1969; Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, 27 January–8 March 1970; New York, Finch College Museum of Art, 1 April–15 June 1970, Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Kurt Meissner (Stanford Art Book 10, Department of Art, Stanford University), cat. no. 74, p. 74 (ill.).
Shelley Perlove and George S. Keyes (editors), Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), pp. 116, 188 no. 76, 189 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, New Acquisitions: Old Master Drawings, Dec. 2, 1989–June 8, 1990, no cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by the Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 10, 1991–Jan. 5, 1992, n.p., cat. 19; also New York, Frick Collection, Apr. 23–July 7, 1991.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age”, September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 34, 121 (ill.), 122, 317, 336 (ill.), cat. 38, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

Unknown collector [unidentified stamp, recto, lower left, in black]. Kurt Meissner (1909–2004), Zurich and Zolliken. British Rail Pension Fund; sold by Lexbourne Ltd., London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.

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