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Landscape with Three Bathers

Former TitleBoys Bathing
Dateca. 1617-1621
MediumBrown ink and wash on paper
DimensionsOverall: 7 1/4 × 10 1/16 inches (18.42 × 25.55 cm)
Framed: 17 1/4 × 19 1/2 × 1 1/4 inches (43.82 × 49.53 × 3.18 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Milton McGreevy
Object number81-30/31
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. 19, as Bathers.


Old Master Drawings: Selected from the Collection of Milton McGreevy, Gifts and Bequest to Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1982, no. 6, as Boys Bathing.


Guercino, Master Draftsman: Works from North American Collections, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, February 15-March 31, 1991; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, May 3-June 16, 1991; The Cleveland Museum of Art, August 27-October 13, 1991, no. 67, as Landscape with Three Bathers.


Master European Drawings from Polish Collections, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 17-June 6, 1993. This was a NAMA addition to the exhibition.


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. 22, as Landscape with Three Bathers.


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 Landscape with Three Bathers.






Provenance

K.E. Maison (1900-1971), London;

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

Published References

“Drawings: Collection of Milton McGreevy,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) 4, no. 6 (March 7-April 4, 1965): 18, (repro.), as Bathers.

Old Master Drawings: Selected from the Collection of Milton McGreevy, Gifts and Bequest to Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1982), unpaginated, (repro.), as Boys Bathing.

David M. Stone, Guercino, Master Draftsman: Works from North American Collections, exh. cat.  (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums, 1991), 156-57, 217, (repro.), as Landscape with Three Bathers.

Diane DeGrazia, “Reviews: Guercino, Master Draftsman: Works from North American Collections,” Master Drawings 31, no. 1 (Spring 1993): 61, as Landscape with Three Bathers.

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), 162, (repro.), as Boys Bathing.  

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1998), 89-90, 251, (repro.), as Landscape with Three Bathers.

 

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