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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.119
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Interior of a Peasant's House with Men Smoking and Quarrelling and Children Playing
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298886

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Moistened black chalk and graphite on off-white antique laid paper
Dimensions
19.6 × 26.2 cm (7 11/16 × 10 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower right, brown ink: D. T.
  • watermark: J [fleur-de-lis] BERGER FIN / AUVERGNE 1742
  • inscription: former mat, graphite: [left edge:] 511. [left center:] weaver Pieter de Bloot [lower edge:] David Tenniers / poor drwg / of period / Sketch in charcoal original / from Ewins' Col
  • collector's mark: verso, lower center, purple ink stamp and brown ink: L. 2130 [with accompanying inscription] 511 (John Witt Randall Collection at Harvard College)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Possibly Ewins, possibly sold; to John Witt Randall, Boston, Massachusetts, bequest; Belinda Lull Randall, 1892, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1892.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Accession Year
1898
Object Number
1898.119
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 551, p. 290

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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