The Rape of Europa

Provenance

By descent to the artist’s nephew, from 1655.  Private collection, Aix en Provence, to 2015; sold by Galerie Laura Pecheur, Paris, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2015.

The Rape of Europa

Cornelis Schut, I

1635/40

Accession Number

228863

Medium

Black chalk, with touches of white chalk, on ivory laid paper

Dimensions

26.3 × 38.9 cm (10 3/8 × 15 3/8 in.)

Classification

chalk

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Mr. and Mrs. William O. Hunt and Henry Wood funds