- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2020.295
- People
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Roelant Savery, Flemish (Kortrijk, Netherlands 1576 - 1639 Utrecht, Netherlands)
- Title
- Six Peasants Merrymaking
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Peasant Scene
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1608
- Culture
- Dutch
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/183543
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Black and red chalk on cream antique laid paper
- Dimensions
- 27.1 × 20.6 cm (10 11/16 × 8 1/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- watermark: [fragment]
- inscription: verso, graphite: 8
- collector's mark: lower right, red ink: CED [in oval] [Lugt 533a, mark of Karel Emil Duits]
- collector's mark: verso, lower left, blue ink: M/G [inside] A [Lugt 3306, mark of Maida and George Abrams]
- Provenance
- Karel Emil (Charles) Duits, London (Lugt 533a), by descent to Duits family. [1] [Thomas Brod, London] sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston (Lugt 3306), 1999, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2020
Notes
[1] Spicer 1970 and 1979 listed owner as "private collection, London," which is almost certainly the Duits family. - Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gift of George Abrams in memory of John F. Cogan, Jr., Harvard Class of 1949, Harvard Law School Class of 1952
- Accession Year
- 2020
- Object Number
- 2020.295
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Joaneath Spicer, "The 'Naer het Leven' Drawings: By Pieter Bruegel or Roelandt Savery", Master Drawings (Spring 1970), 8, pp. 3-30, pp. 6, 20, 25
Joaneath Spicer-Durham, "The Drawings of Roelandt Savery" (1979), vol. 1, pp. 229-233, vol. 2, pp. 640, 667, no. C230 F 221
John Oliver Hand, J. R. Judson, and William W. Robinson, The Age of Bruegel: Netherlandish Drawings in the Sixteenth Century, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art/Cambridge University Press (Washington, D.C. and Cambridge, England, 1986), p. 266
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), cat. no. 35, repr.
- Exhibition History
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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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