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Sacrifice in a Temple

Former TitleSacrifice in a Classical Temple
Artist Karl Friedrich von Schinkel (German, 1781 - 1841)
Dateprobably before 1815
MediumBrown ink with brown wash, watercolor, and gouache on paper
DimensionsUnframed: 15 9/16 × 20 5/8 inches (39.52 × 52.4 cm)
Framed: 24 1/2 × 29 1/4 × 1 inches (62.23 × 74.3 × 2.54 cm)
Credit LineGift of Milton McGreevy
Object numberF61-55/6
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

Neo-Classicism: Style and Motif, The Cleveland Museum of Art, September 23-November 1, 1964, no. 174, as Sacrifice in a Temple.

Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 7-April 4, 1965, no. 87, as Sacrifice in a Temple.

The Taste of Napoleon, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 2-November 16, 1969, no. 64, as Sacrifice in a Temple.

Master Drawings from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, MO, September 22-December 3, 1989, unnumbered, as Sacrifice in a Classical Temple.

Master European Drawings from Polish Collections, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 17-June 6, 1993. This was a NAMA addition to the exhibition.

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, June 23-August 18, 1996; The Cummer Museum and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, September 20-November 29, 1996; The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, December 21, 1996-March 2, 1997.

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 12-September 6, 1998, no cat.



Provenance

With P. and D. Colnaghi, Ltd., London, by May 26, 1959;

Purchased from Colnaghi by Durlacher Brothers, New York, stock no. 701 D, May 26-October 22, 1959 [1];

Purchased from Durlacher Brothers by Milton McGreevy (1903-1980), Shawnee Mission, KS, October 22, 1959-1961;

His gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1961.

NOTES:

[1] Getty Research Library, Los Angeles, Durlacher Brothers Records, Box 14, Ledger 1937-1966, copy in Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.

Published References

Henry Hawley, Neo-Classicism: Style and Motif, exh. cat. (Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1964), unpaginated, (repro.), as Sacrifice in a Temple.

“Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) 4, no. 6 (March 7-April 4, 1965): 42-43, as Sacrifice in a Temple.

“The Taste of Napoleon,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) 4, no. 10 (October 2-November 16, 1969): 69, as Sacrifice in a Temple.

Roger B. Ward and Mark S. Weil, Master Drawings from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, exh. cat. (St. Louis, MO: Washington University Gallery of Art, 1989), 8, 11, 49, (repro.), as Sacrifice in a Classical Temple.

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 200, (repro.), as Sacrifice in a Classical Temple.

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 110-11, (repro.), as Sacrifice in a Temple.

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