Elegant Company on a Terrace

Artist Pieter Jansz. Quast (Flemish, born 1606)

Date1640

MediumPlumbago on vellum

DimensionsOverall: 11 3/4 × 16 1/4 inches (29.85 × 41.28 cm)

Credit LineGift of Milton McGreevy

Object numberF75-63/5

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Terms

Exhibition History

Old Master Drawings Selected from the Collection of Milton McGreevy: Gifts and Bequest to Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 6-June 5, 1983, no. 15, as Elegant Company on a Terrace.

Provenance

Victor Sordan (1901-1983), New York, by October 1970;

Purchased at hihs sale, Fine Old Master Drawings from American Collections, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, October 22, 1970, lot 45, as Elegant Company on a Terrace, by Milton McGreevy (1903-1980), Shawnee Mission, KS, October 22, 1970-December 30, 1975 [1];

His gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1975.

NOTES:

[1] Sotheby Parke Bernet invoice, October 22, 1970, MS007 Milton McGreevy Papers, NAMA Archives.

Published References

Ross E. Taggart, Old Master Drawings Selected from the Collection of Milton McGreevy: Gifts and Bequest to Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1982), unpaginated, (repro.), as Elegant Company on a Terrace.

Possibly Shelley Karen Perlove and et. al., Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections: The Age of Bernini, Rembrandt, and Poussin (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014.

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