Skip to main content
Trompe l'Oeil with Map and Printed Matter
Trompe l'Oeil with Map and Printed Matter

Trompe l'Oeil with Map and Printed Matter

Artist Johan Szleiwik (German or Polish, early 19th century)
Dateearly 19th century
MediumBlack ink, watercolor, and embossing over traces of graphite on lightweight wove paper
DimensionsOverall: 15 11/16 × 19 11/16 inches (39.85 × 50.01 cm)
Framed: 27 × 33 × 1 1/2 inches (68.58 × 83.82 × 3.81 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Milton McGreevy
Object number81-30/84
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 7-April 4, 1965, no. 88, as Trompe l’Oeil.

More Than Meets the Eye: The Art of Trompe l’œil, Columbus Museum of Art, OH, December 7, 1985-January 22, 1986; Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, March 21-April 27, 1986, no. 26, as Trompe l’Oeil.

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. 65, as Trompe l’Oeil with Map and Printed Matter.

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 Trompe l’Oeil with Map and Printed Matter.

Provenance

Purchased from Schaeffer Galleries, New York, by Milton McGreevy (1903-1980), Shawnee Mission, KS, November 26, 1947-1980;

Bequeathed by Milton McGreevy to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1981.

Published References

“Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) 4, no. 6 (March 7-April 4, 1965): 43, (repro.), as Trompe l’œil.

More Than Meets the Eye: The Art of Trompe l’œil, exh. cat. (Columbus, OH: Columbus Museum of Art, 1985), 80, (repro.), as Trompe l’Oeil.

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), 10, 202-03, (repro.), as Trompe l’Oeil with Map and Printed Matter.

Information about a particular artwork or image, including provenance information, is based upon historic information and may not be currently accurate or complete. Research on artwork and images is an ongoing process, and the information about a particular artwork or image may not reflect the most current information available to the Museum. If you notice a mistake or have additional information about a particular artwork or image, please e-mail provenance@nelson-atkins.org.


Piping Pierrot
Albert Bloch
1910
2020.28
Market Scene in Utrecht
Johannes Huibert Prins
81-30/65
Landscape with Town and River
Marco Ricci
late 17th-early 18th century
54-59
Head of a Bearded Man in Exotic Costume
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
ca. 1760
32-193/18
Moses and the Children of Israel at Mount Sinai
Jan de Bisschop
17th century
44-29/5
Landscape with Rider Watering Horse
Annibale Carracci
16th century
81-30/15
Study for Drapery
16th century
34-300/1
Medea and Aeson or Medea and Pelias
Jan Claudius de Cock
1690
F64-51/14
recto overall
Domenico Campagnola
mid-16th century
81-30/12
An Italian Landscape
Pierre-Antoine Baudouin
1769
74-8/1
Floral Forms
Emil Bisttram
1935
61-19