About the Artwork
Ruins of a Church
ca. 1550
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Flemish
Unknown
Pen and black ink on discolored laid paper
Sheet: 3 1/2 × 4 3/4 inches (8.9 × 12.1 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund
47.74
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower right: Jan van Scorel
Stamp, verso, lower right and left corners: [unidentified blue stamp]
Provenance
unidentified collectors [blue collector's marks on verso in lower right and left corners]. Schaeffer Galleries, Inc. (New York, New York, USA)
1947-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Logan, A.M. Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1988, pp. 115-116, no. 57 (ill.).
Dunbar, Burton, L., Robert Munman, and Edward Olszewski, ed. A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections. Sixteenth-Century Northern European Drawings. Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2012, p. 106, cat. 66 (ill.).
From Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Prints and Drawings from 1550 to 1700. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 2020, p. 9.
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Flemish, Ruins of a Church, ca. 1550, pen and black ink on discolored laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund, 47.74.
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