id: 151517 accession number: 1983.69 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1983.69 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:52.281000 Study for "The Bear Hunt" (for the Alcázar, Madrid), c. 1639. Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640). 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 title: Study for "The Bear Hunt" (for the Alcázar, Madrid) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1639 creation date earliest: 1634 creation date latest: 1644 current location: 213 Dutch Painting creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: Flanders technique: oil on wood department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Netherlandish-Flemish type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640) - artist --- 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Year in Review for 1983 opening date: 1984-02-22T05:00:00 The Year in Review for 1983. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 22-April 8, 1984). title: Rubens and His Time opening date: 1998-11-05T00:00:00 Rubens and His Time. Museo de San Carlos (INBA) (November 5, 1998-February 28, 1999). title: Drawn by the Brush: Oil Sketches by Peter Paul Rubens opening date: 2004-10-02T00:00:00 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Christie's, London, E. Henstridge sale, April 11, 1930, no. 91, sold to Rothschild) date: footnotes: citations: (A. G. von Frey [Alexander von Frey]) date: 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.


citations: (Thos. Agnew & Sons, London). date: Nov. 12, 1930 - June 10, 1937 footnotes: citations: G. Huntington Hartford (1911-2008), New York. date: June 10, 1937 - footnotes: citations: (Newhouse Galleries, New York) date: - May 15, 1972 footnotes: citations: (Thos. Agnew & Sons, London) date: May 15, 1972 - Feb. 13, 1973 footnotes: citations: Private collection date: footnotes: citations: (Thos. Agnew and Sons, London) date: 1979 footnotes: citations: Private collection, Portugal. date: 1980 footnotes: citations: (Sotheby's, London, sale, June 23, 1983, no. 40, ill.) date: 1983 footnotes: citations: (Newhouse Galleries, New York), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art. date: 1983 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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: Bordley, Rogers. Rubens ou Snyders? Paris: La Nef de Paris, 1956. page number: Mentioned: pp. 85, 147; Reproduced: fig. 81 (as by Snyders) url: The Burlington Magazine 65 (1973) page number: Mentioned: p. 53; reproduced: fig. 51 url: Díaz Padrón, Matías. In Pedro Pablo Rubens (1577-1640): exposición homenaje. Exh. cat. Madrid: Palacio de Velazquez, published by Madrid: Dirección General del Patrimonio Artistico, Archivos y Museos, 1977. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 110, no. 94 url: Jaffé, Michael. "Exhibitions for the Rubens Year, III." The Burlington Magazine 120 no. 902 (1978) page number: Mentioned: p. 346, no. 94 url: 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: The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71 (1984) page number: Mentioned: p. 68, no. 23; Reproduced: p. 69 url: Turner, Evan H. "Year in Review for 1983." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 2 (1984): 38-79. page number: Referenced: cat. no. 23, p. 68, Reproduced: p. 69 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159848. 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: 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: 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: 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: Weller, Dennis P. Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings. Raleigh, N.C.: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2009. page number: Mentioned: p. 299; Reproduced p. 300, fig. 62A url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1983.69/1983.69_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1983.69/1983.69_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1983.69/1983.69_full.tif