- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1.2018.69
- People
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Jacques de Gheyn II, Dutch (Antwerp, Netherlands 1565 - 1629 The Hague, Netherlands)
- Title
- Pikeman
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 17th century
- Culture
- Dutch
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/182202
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Black and brown ink and gray wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper
- Dimensions
- 28 x 18 cm (11 x 7 1/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: Brown ink, lower right: IDG[in ligature]heyn. In.
- inscription: lower right of mount, graphite: SE500 / 7
- inscription: recto of mount, upper left, graphite: 40 [or] 48
- watermark: eagle with Basel crozier
- inscription: verso, center, graphite: No 5. [?] nels / 22 [crossed out]
- inscription: verso of mount, lower center, brown ink: N: 130 Jacob de Gheyn
- inscription: verso of mount, lower right, graphite: Mappe Handzeichg / 2 fol / 43700 / M 500.--
- collector's mark: lower left and lower right of mount, black ink stamp: [rooster; mark of Carl Robert Rudolf, Lugt 2811b]
- Provenance
- Jan Pietersz. Zoomer, Amsterdam. Sold [through unidentified auction house, Amsterdam, April 5, 1725, lot 56]. Jan Goeree, Amsterdam. Sold [through unidentified auction house, Amsterdam, March 12, 1731, lot T]. Jacob Heinrich von Hefner Altneck, Munich (Lugt 1254). Sold [through Galerie Helbing, Munich, June 9, 1904, lot 130]. Sold [through Sotheby's, London, February 15, 1921, part of lot 23]. Charles Fairfax Murray, London. Carl Robert Rudolf, London (Lugt 2811b), sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1975
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Promised Gift
- Accession Year
- 2018
- Object Number
- 1.2018.69
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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C. R. Rudolf, Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Mr. C. R. Rudolf, Arts Council of Great Britain, London (London, England, 1962), pp. 20-21, cat. no. 100
Franklin W. Robinson, Seventeenth Century Dutch Drawings from American Collections, exh. cat., International Exhibitions Foundation (Washington, D.C, 1977), cat. 4, pp. xiii, xiv and 6-8, repr.
The Draughtsman at Work. Drawing in the Golden Century of Dutch Art, checklist (unpublished, 1980), no. 34
I. Q. van Regteren Altena, Jacques de Gheyn: Three Generations, M. Nijhoff Publishers (The Hague, Boston and London, 1983), vol. 2, p. 75, no. 431
A. Th. van Deursen and Emil Karel Josef Reznicek, Jacques de Gheyn II: Drawings, exh. cat., Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1985), p. 46
F. W. H. Hollstein, The New Hollstein : Dutch & Flemish etchings, engravings, and woodcuts, 1450-1700, Koninklijke van Poll, Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, and Sound + Vision Publishers (Roosendall, Rotterdam, and Ouderkerk aan den IJssel, 1993 - ongoing), vol. 9 (The De Gheyn Family, compiled by Jan Piet Filedt Kok and Marjolein Leesberg, 2000), p. 172, under no. 426
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. 80, 83, cat. no. 28c, repr. p. 83, watermark repr. p. 275
- Exhibition History
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Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Mr. C. R. Rudolf, Arts Council Gallery, London, London, 01/05/1962 - 02/03/1962; City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, 02/17/1962 - 03/11/1962; Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, 03/17/1962 - 04/07/1962
Seventeenth Century Dutch Drawings from American Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 01/30/1977 - 03/13/1977; Denver Art Museum, Denver, 04/01/1977 - 05/15/1977; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 06/01/1977 - 07/15/1977
The Draughtsman at Work. Drawing in the Golden Century of Dutch Art, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/21/1980 - 01/04/1981
Jacques de Gheyn II 1565-1629 drawings, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 12/14/1985 - 02/09/1986; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 03/09/1986 - 05/11/1986
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
- Subjects and Contexts
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Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings
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