Medea and Aeson or Medea and Pelias

Artist Jan Claudius de Cock (Flemish, ca. 1668 - 1736)

Date1690

MediumBrown ink over traces of graphite on paper

DimensionsOverall: 11 3/4 × 9 1/2 inches (29.85 × 24.13 cm)
Framed: 21 × 17 1/4 × 1 1/4 inches (53.34 × 43.82 × 3.18 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Milton McGreevy

Object numberF64-51/14

SignedRecto, b.l.corner: "Jean Claud./ de Cocke inv./ delineavit Anv:Augut 28/ 1690"; verso, l.r. (in a different hand): "Jean Claudi de Cock--Anvers/ 1690"

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Terms

Exhibition History

Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 7-April 4, 1965, no. 42, as Medea Rejuvenating Aeson, Father of Jason.

Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Washington University Gallery of Art, Saint Louis, MO, September 22-December 3, 1989, unnumbered.

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, no. 36, as Medea and Aeson or Medea and Pelias.

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., as Medea and Aeson or Medea and Pelias.

Mythological Subjects, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, June 12-December 15, 2013, no cat., Medea and Aeson or Medea and Pelias.

From the Familiar to the Fantastic: Animals in Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 17-January 17, 2020-2021.

Provenance

Given by Milton (1903-1980) and Barbara (née James, 1905-1996) McGreevy, Shawnee Mission, KS, to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1964.

Published References

“Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) 4, no. 6 (March 7-April 4, 1965): 28, as Medea Rejuvenating Aeson, Father of Jason.

Roger 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), 37, (repro.).

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), 173, (repro.), as Medea Rejuvenating Aeson, Father of Jason.

Roger Ward, Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 125-27, (repro.), as Medea and Aeson or Medea and Pelias.

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), 83, (repro.), as Medea and Aeson or Medea and Pelias.

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