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Study of a Female Nude (Possibly Susanna)
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Study of a Female Nude (Possibly Susanna)

Artist Jacob van Loo (Dutch, 1614 - 1670)
Formerly attributed to Jacob Adriaensz Backer (Dutch, 1608 - 1651)
Date1650s
MediumBlack and white chalk on blue-green paper
DimensionsOverall: 15 5/8 × 9 3/16 inches (39.7 × 23.34 cm)
Framed: 26 × 20 × 1 1/4 inches (66.04 × 50.8 × 3.18 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: acquired through the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Milton McGreevy through the Westport Fund
Object numberF64-44
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

European Drawings 14501900, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, February 25March 28, 1964, no. 59.

Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 7April 4, 1965, no. 32.

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

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

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, June 23August 18, 1996; The Cummer Museum and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, September 20November 29, 1996; The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, December 21, 1996March 2, 1997, no. 28, as Seated Female Nude.

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.

The Human Body, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, November 30, 2010–June 5, 2011, no cat.

Fierce Women: Artemisia Gentileschi and the Women Worthies, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 25–July 23, 2023, no cat.

Provenance

Purchased from R. M. Light and Co., Inc., Boston, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1964.

Published References

European Drawings 1450-1900, exh. cat. (Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1964), unpaginated, (repro.).

“Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) 6, no. 4 (March 7-April 4, 1965), 23-24, (repro.).

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), 27, (repro.).

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), 105-06, (repro.), as Seated Female Nude.

John Brandenburg, “Drawing as Work of Art Given Due Respect in Philbrook Exhibit,” Oklahoman (June 28, 1996): https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/1996/06/28/drawing-as-work-of-art-given-due-respect-in-philbrook-exhibit/62350959007/, as by Jacob Adriaensz-Backer.



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