{ "data": { "id": 151517, "accession_number": "1983.69", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Study for \"The Bear Hunt\" (for the Alc\u00e1zar, Madrid), c. 1639. Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577\u20131640). Oil on wood; framed: 70.5 x 40.6 x 7.6 cm (27 3/4 x 16 x 3 in.); unframed: 26 x 53.7 cm (10 1/4 x 21 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1983.69", "current_location": "213 Dutch Painting", "title": "Study for \"The Bear Hunt\" (for the Alc\u00e1zar, Madrid)", "creation_date": "c. 1639", "creation_date_earliest": 1634, "creation_date_latest": 1644, "artists_tags": [ "male" ], "culture": [ "Flanders" ], "technique": "oil on wood", "support_materials": [], "department": "European Painting and Sculpture", "collection": "P - Netherlandish-Flemish", "type": "Painting", "measurements": "Framed: 70.5 x 40.6 x 7.6 cm (27 3/4 x 16 x 3 in.); Unframed: 26 x 53.7 cm (10 1/4 x 21 1/8 in.)", "dimensions": { "framed": { "height": 0.705, "height_inch": 27, "height_inch_fraction": 0.75, "width": 0.406, "width_inch": 16, "width_inch_fraction": 0.0, "depth": 0.076, "depth_inch": 3, "depth_inch_fraction": 0.0 }, "unframed": { "height": 0.26, "height_inch": 10, "height_inch_fraction": 0.25, "width": 0.537, "width_inch": 21, "width_inch_fraction": 0.125 } }, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": { "current": [ { "id": 309669, "title": "The Year in Review for 1983", "description": "The Year in Review for 1983. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 22-April 8, 1984).", "opening_date": "1984-02-22T05:00:00" }, { "id": 220868, "title": "Rubens and His Time", "description": "Rubens and His Time. Museo de San Carlos (INBA) (November 5, 1998-February 28, 1999).", "opening_date": "1998-11-05T00:00:00" }, { "id": 176965, "title": "Drawn by the Brush: Oil Sketches by Peter Paul Rubens", "description": "Drawn by the Brush: Oil Sketches by Peter Paul Rubens. Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT (October 2, 2004-January 30, 2005); Berkeley Museum of Art/Pacific Film Archive, CA (March 2-May 22, 2005); The Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH (organizer) (June 11-September 11, 2005).", "opening_date": "2004-10-02T00:00:00" } ], "legacy": [] }, "provenance": [ { "description": "(Christie's, London, E. Henstridge sale, April 11, 1930, no. 91, sold to Rothschild)", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": null, "sortorder": 1 }, { "description": "(A. G. von Frey [Alexander von Frey])", "citations": [], "footnotes": [ "
The collector and art dealer Alexander von Frey (1882-1951), a Hungarian national, began to amass his art collection in the 1920s. Throughout the 1930s to end of World War II, he lived in Berlin, Vienna, Paris, and Lucerne. While living in Lucerne in the mid-1940s, he began to use the name A. C. de Frey. In 1948, de Frey and his wife, Erika, moved to the United States where they lived in New York and Vermont (see: https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/350/)
During WWII Frey is known to have been involved in the trading of confiscated art; however there is no suggestion that 1983.69 came into von Frey's possession in this manner.


" ], "date": null, "sortorder": 2 }, { "description": "(Thos. Agnew & Sons, London).", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "Nov. 12, 1930 - June 10, 1937", "sortorder": 3 }, { "description": "G. Huntington Hartford (1911-2008), New York.", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "June 10, 1937 -", "sortorder": 4 }, { "description": "(Newhouse Galleries, New York)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "- May 15, 1972", "sortorder": 5 }, { "description": "(Thos. Agnew & Sons, London)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "May 15, 1972 - Feb. 13, 1973", "sortorder": 6 }, { "description": "Private collection", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": null, "sortorder": 7 }, { "description": "(Thos. Agnew and Sons, London)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1979", "sortorder": 8 }, { "description": "Private collection, Portugal.", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1980", "sortorder": 9 }, { "description": "(Sotheby's, London, sale, June 23, 1983, no. 40, ill.)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1983", "sortorder": 10 }, { "description": "(Newhouse Galleries, New York), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art.", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1983", "sortorder": 11 } ], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "With just a few quick brushstrokes, Rubens evokes the energy and drama of a ferocious hunt.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "On June 22, 1639, King Philip IV of Spain received a letter from his younger brother Ferdinand (1609\u20131641). The letter explained that the artist Peter Paul Rubens had recently completed all of the sketches for a series of paintings that were to hang in the halls of the Alc\u00e1zar Palace in Madrid. Bear Hunt is one of seven surviving studies out of the original eighteen. In this scene, a bear attacks a hunter and a companion comes to his aide The others work to stave off a second angry bear. The sketch was completed in the last year Rubens's life, and the paintings for the series were never completed.", "external_resources": { "wikidata": [ "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60475238" ], "internet_archive": [ "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1983.69-study-for-the-bear-h" ] }, "citations": [ { "citation": "Larsen, Erik. P.P. Rubens. With a Complete Catalogue of his Works in America. Antwerp: De Sikkel, 1952.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 200, under no. 112", "url": null }, { "citation": "Bordley, Rogers. Rubens ou Snyders? Paris: La Nef de Paris, 1956.", "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 85, 147; Reproduced: fig. 81 (as by Snyders)", "url": null }, { "citation": "The Burlington Magazine 65 (1973)", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 53; reproduced: fig. 51", "url": null }, { "citation": "Di\u0301az Padro\u0301n, Mati\u0301as. In Pedro Pablo Rubens (1577-1640): exposicio\u0301n homenaje. Exh. cat. Madrid: Palacio de Velazquez, published by Madrid: Direccio\u0301n General del Patrimonio Artistico, Archivos y Museos, 1977.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 110, no. 94", "url": null }, { "citation": "Jaff\u00e9, Michael. \"Exhibitions for the Rubens Year, III.\" The Burlington Magazine 120 no. 902 (1978)", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 346, no. 94", "url": null }, { "citation": "Held, Julius S. The Oil Sketches of Peter Paul Rubens: A Critical Catalogue. 2 vols. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1979.", "page_number": "Mentioned: vol. 1, pp. 309-310, no. 225; Reproduced: vol. 2, pl. 235", "url": null }, { "citation": "Turner, Evan H. \"Year in Review for 1983.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 2 (1984): 38-79.", "page_number": "Mentioned: cat. no. 23, p. 68, Reproduced: p. 69", "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159848" }, { "citation": "Adler, Wolfgang, and Arnout Balis. Landscapes and Hunting Scenes (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchardt, pt. 18), vol. 2: Arnout Balis, Rubens Hunting Scenes. London: H. Miller, 1986.", "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 263-264; Reproduced: fig. 133", "url": null }, { "citation": "Museo de San Carlos, and Palazzo dei diamanti (Ferrara, Italy). Rubens y su siglo. Mexico: Landucci/Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1999.", "page_number": "Referenced: cat. no. 21", "url": null }, { "citation": "Museo de San Carlos, and Palazzo dei diamanti (Ferrara, Italy). Rubens y su siglo. Mexico: Landucci/Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1999.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 120-122, no. 21", "url": null }, { "citation": "Sutton, Peter C., Marjorie E. Wieseman, and Nico van Hout. Drawn by the Brush: Oil Sketches by Peter Paul Rubens. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004.", "page_number": "Referenced: cat. no. 41", "url": null }, { "citation": "Weller, Dennis P. Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings. 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