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Diana

Artist Abraham Bloemaert (Dutch, 1564 - 1651)
Date17th century
MediumRed and black chalk, brown ink, and gray wash on paper
DimensionsUnframed: 5 9/16 x 4 3/8 inches (14.12 x 11.13 cm)
Framed: 19 x 16 x 1 inches (48.26 x 40.64 x 2.54 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Milton McGreevy
Object number81-30/5
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionDiana, in low cut dress, gazing downward to her proper right, holding dog (l.l.) on a leash in her proper right hand, holding bow in her proper left hand, arrows strapped over her proper right shoulder.Exhibition History

Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 7-April 4, 1965, no. 33, as Diana.

Gods of High Olympus, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 15-March 20, 1983, no. 38.

A Bountiful Decade: Selected Acquisitions, 1977-1987, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 14-December 6, 1987, no. 94, as Diana.

Master Drawings from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Kansas City, Missouri, Washington University Gallery of Art, September 22-December 3, 1989, unnumbered, as Diana.

Master European Drawings from Polish Collections, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 17-June 6, 1993. NAMA Addition.

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. 17, as Diana.

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 12-September 6, 1998, unnumbered, as Diana.

Mythological Subjects, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 12-December 15, 2013, no cat.

Gallery Label
Diana, goddess of the hunt and the moon, is shown with a crescent moon above her forehead and carries the weapons of the hunt, accompanied by a dog. Abraham Bloemaert was a leading artist of the late 16th century in the Netherlands. He worked in a complex virtuoso style similar to that of Joachim Wtewael and of Hendrick Goltzius. In this drawing, the elaborate flowing rhythms of the drapery and accoutrements give an effect of delicate sensuality.
Provenance

Ruth Heidsieck (née Hill, 1879-1959), New York, by 1959;

Purchased from her sale, Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance Art, Old Master Paintings and Drawings, Egyptian, Greek and Roman Art, Armor, Edged Weapons and Firearms: From the Collection Formed by the Late Georg Swarzenski…And Other Sources, Including…Ruth H. Heidsieck, New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, May 12, 1960, lot 34, erroneously as by Hendrick Goltzius, as Diana;

Sales and Rental Gallery, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1960;

Bequeathed by Milton McGreevy (1903-1980), Shawnee Mission, KS, to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1981.

Published References

Catalogue of Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance Art, Old Master Paintings and Drawings, Egyptian, Greek and Roman Art, Armor, Edged Weapons and Firearms: From the Collection Formed by the Late Georg Swarzenski…And Other Sources, Including…Ruth H. Heidsieck, New York (New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, May 12, 1960), 8, erroneously as by Hendrick Goltzius, as Diana.

“Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) vol. 4, no. 6 (March 7-April 4, 1965): 7, 23, 25, (repro.), as Diana.

Ross Taggart, Gods of High Olympus, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1983), 23-24, (repro.).

Peter C. Sutton, A Guide to Dutch Art in America (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eeerdmans, 1986), 123, (repro.).

Roger Ward, ed., A Bountiful Decade: Selected Acquisitions, 1977-1987, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1987), 214-15, (repro.), as Diana.

Brenda Gilchrist, Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Canada, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1988), 111, 112n4, (repro.), as Diana.

Roger Ward and Mark S. Weil, Master Drawings from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, exh. cat. (St. Louis, MO: Washington University Gallery of Art, 1989), 8, 21, (repro.), as Diana.

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), 158, (repro.), as Diana.

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), 77-79, (repro.), as Diana.

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), 66, (repro.), as Diana.

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