Art Institute of Chicago
Paul Before Felix
William HogarthLinkedCulture matchlcp-4bc0237dded5
- Date
- c. 1751
- Medium
- Various red chalks on cream laid paper
- Culture
- England
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 186088
Around 1747 William Hogarth completed a series of history paintings that were much more serious in tone than the satirical works on which he had built his fame. This drawing and Moses Brought to Pharaoh’s Daughter (2013.951) were both likely made after those paintings as studies for engravings. Paul before Felix , showing the apostle’s self-defense, was commissioned for the chapel of Lincoln’s Inn, where lawyers were admitted to the bar. Moses was similarly appropriate for its location, the London Foundling’s Hospital, as it shows the prophet’s mother reluctantly giving him up for adoption.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection in memory of Lt. Col. Charles Albert Appel
- Provenance
- Given by the artist to Dr. Munro [1792 auc. cat.]. (John?) Greenwood; sold, Apr. 30, 1792, lot 48. W. Willett, 1862. Edward Cheney [inscription and initials on the reverse]. F. Capel Cure; sold, Sotheby’s, London, May 15, 1905, lot 99, to Harvey [London 1975 auc. cat.]. Sold, Christie’s, London, June 17, 1975, lot 59, to P. & D. Colnaghi, London, for Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2011.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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