Kneeling Monk Holding a Crucifix

Prints and Drawings

1630

Cornelis Saftleven
Dutch, 1607-1681

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Cornelis Saftleven
Title: Kneeling Monk Holding a Crucifix
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.: 1630
Medium: Black chalk on cream laid paper
Inscriptions: Signed and inscribed, recto lower right, in image above feet, in black chalk: “CS / 1630”; verso, in graphite: "11 ⅜ x 7 ⅜"; inscribed by William Gurley, in pen and black ink: "Cornelius Saftleven/ 1607–1682"
Dimensions: 29 × 18.9 cm (11 7/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.1848
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The Art Institute of Chicago, “Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age”, September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 112, 114 (ill.), 314, 336 (ill.), cat. 34, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

Horace Stone Wilcocks, Plymouth, England; sold, Sotheby’s, June 5–6, 1913, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower left, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, lower center, in black].

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