Dance Under the Trees
Mat: 14 × 19 inches (35.56 × 48.26 cm)
Graphic Masterworks from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 23-July 25, 1993, no cat., as Dance Under the Trees.
Inked in Time: Six Centuries of Printed Masterpieces, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 22, 1998-May 31, 1998, no cat., as Dance Under the Trees.
Reality and Fantasy: Land, Town and Sea, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 15-October 26, 2008, no cat., as Dance Under the Trees.
Reality and Fantasy: Land, Town and Sea, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, December 18, 2013-June 22, 2014, no cat., as Dance Under the Trees.
Samuel Solomonovitsch Scheikevitch (1842-1908), Moscow and Paris, by November 10, 1908 [1];
Colonel Henry Brodhurst (collected 1819-1870), Dale Close, Mansfield, UK, by May 24, 1910 [2];
Scheikevitch’s posthumous sale, Très belles estampes de toutes les écoles, oeuvres de Albert Dürer, Rembrandt Van Rijn, Aldegrever, Baudouin, B. et H.-S. Beham, Debucourt, Demarteau, Baron, Boucher-Desnoyers, Everdingen, Cl. Gellée, Lawreince, L. de Leyde, R. Morghem, Van Ostade, G. Pentcz, Raimondi, Rubens et son école, M. Schongauer, etc. Très beaux portraits par Balechou, les Drevet, Edelinck, Nanteuil, Schmidt, Suiderhoef, Visscher, Wille et autres maîitres, composant la collection de M. S. Scheikevitch, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, May 24-28, 1910, lot 455, as La Danse sous les arbres [3];
Charles Deering (1852–1927), Stiges, Spain, by 1927 [4];
Possibly given to his daughters, Marion McCormick (née Deering, 1886-1965), DuPage County, IL, and Barbara Danielson (née Deering, 1888-1987), Miami, 1924 [5];
The Art Institute of Chicago, by May 30, 1930-April 1, 1932;
Purchased from the Art Institute of Chicago, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.
NOTES:
[1] Lugt 2264, 2367
[2] Lugt 1296
[3] The work listed in the catalogue as being in “Colon Brodhurst’s” collection at the time of this sale.
[4] Lugt 516
[5] According to the Art Institute of Chicago, Charles Deering gave his art collection to his daughters in 1924. They in turn donated many works to the Art Institute following his death in 1927.
A.P.F. Robert-Dumesnil, Georges Duplessis, and Adam von Bartsch, Le peintre-graveur français, ou Catalogue raisonné des estampes gravées par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'école française, vol. 1, Artistes du dix-septième Siècle, pt.1 (Paris: Chez Gabriel Warée and Mme. Huzard, 1835), no. 10, pp. 3, 14-15, as La Danse sous les arbres.
Georges Duplessis, Eaux-fortes de Claude Lorrain (Paris: Armand-Durand, 1875), no. 10.
Catalogue des très belles estampes de toutes les écoles, oeuvres de Albert Dürer, Rembrandt Van Rijn, Aldegrever, Baudouin, B. et H.-S. Beham, Debucourt, Demarteau, Baron, Boucher-Desnoyers, Everdingen, Cl. Gellée, Lawreince, L. de Leyde, R. Morghem, Van Ostade, G. Pentcz, Raimondi, Rubens et son école, M. Schongauer, etc. Très beaux portraits par Balechou, les Drevet, Edelinck, Nanteuil, Schmidt, Suiderhoef, Visscher, Wille et autres maîitres, composant la collection de M. S. Scheikevitch (Paris: Imprimerie de l’Art, Chez Berger, May 24-28, 1910), 56, as La Danse sous les arbres.
André Blum, Les eaux-fortes de Claude Gellée dit Le Lorrain (Paris: Morancé, 1923), no. 35.
Eckhart Knab, “Die Anfänge des Claude Lorrain,” Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien 56 (neue Folge XX) (1960): 129.
Diane H. Russell, Claude Lorrain 1600-1682, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1982), no. 28 III-IV/V.
Lino Mannocci, The Etchings of Claude Lorrain (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988), no. 19 III/VII.
George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995: The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 84-85, 293, (repro.), as Dance under the Trees.
