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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1.2018.197
People
Frans Withoos, Dutch (Amersfoort 1657 - 1705 Hoorn)
Title
Two Studies of a Carrot
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Root Vegetable
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/182200

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Transparent watercolor and white opaque watercolor over black chalk on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
22.5 x 40.3 cm (8 7/8 x 15 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper center, brown ink,: Affteekening zoo van d’een als ander seijde van een geele peen off wortel / ten Comptoir Hila in Comp[?] tuijn gevonden (drawing of the one side and the other side of a carrot / at the Comptoir [trading post] Hila found in the Comp[?] garden).

  • watermark: Strasbourg Lily over WR
  • inscription: verso, lower center, graphite, Dutch: Frans Withoos de jonghe [illeg] braeders, anmonkelijk ni of naar genaeijen / slagen de, reis de man Batavie, alwaar zijn talent den Gouvernaer Hamphuys / derwyze innam, dat dese sick[?] van zijn penseel bedi[illeg]ende om de planten, / insecten en dergelijke in dat lanof, voor hem af te teekenen. / Hij is de Hoorn geborenen in het jaar 1705 / J. Immerseel Jr / III deel bladt 244
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: F. Withoos
  • inscription: on frame, verso, lower left, black fiber tip pen: SA665
  • label: on frame, verso, upper right, blue ink: 227

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Sold [through Christie's, London, July 7, 1998, lot 227]; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston (Lugt 3306)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Promised Gift
Accession Year
2018
Object Number
1.2018.197
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • William W. Robinson, Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), pp. 236-237, cat. no. 105, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, British Museum, London, 06/13/2002 - 09/22/2002; Institut Néerlandais, Paris, 10/10/2002 - 12/08/2002; Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/22/2003 - 07/06/2003
  • Mirror of Holland: Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, Part 2, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 03/26/2011 - 07/31/2011

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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