Harvard Art Museums > 2020.295: Six Peasants Merrymaking Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Six Peasants Merrymaking (Roelant Savery) , 2020.295,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 16, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/183543. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2020.295 People 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 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 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 Recorded Ownership History 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 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 Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History 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 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 Drawn to Daily Life: Dutch Genre Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 03/08/2014 - 09/06/2014 The Art of Drawing in the Early Dutch Golden Age, 1590–1630: Selected Works from the Abrams Collection, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/09/2017 - 01/14/2018 Subjects and Contexts Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
