About the Artwork
The Sacrifice of Abraham
ca. 1730
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French
French
Black chalk with white chalk on tan laid paper
Sheet: 20 1/4 × 16 7/16 inches (51.4 × 41.8 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1SDR226
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, verso, upper center: [indecipherable] Inscribed, on mount, verso, lower right: Rubens Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, on mount, verso, lower left, vertically: Muraour
Stamp, in red ink, lower right: WB (Lugt 2604)
Provenance
William Bates (London, England). March, 1889, sold by (Sotheby's, London, England). James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors. Cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1992, pp. 228-229, no. 109.
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French, The Sacrifice of Abraham, ca. 1730, black chalk with white chalk on tan laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR226.
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