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Mercury

Artist Salomon de Bray (Dutch, 1597 - 1664)
MediumPencil and red chalk
DimensionsImage: 10 3/16 × 7 1/2 inches (25.88 × 19.05 cm)
Sheet: 12 5/8 × 9 9/16 inches (32.07 × 24.29 cm)
Credit LineGift of Milton McGreevy
Object numberF59-65/12
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. 36, as Mercury.

Provenance

With Nathan Chaikin, New York, by April 24, 1959;

Purchased from Chaikin by Milton McGreevy (1903-1980), Shawnee Mission, KS, April 24, 1959 [1];

His gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1959.

NOTES:

[1] NAMA Archives, MS007 Milton McGreevy Records.

 

Published References

“Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) 4, no. 6 (March 7-April 4, 1965): 7, 27, as Mercury.

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