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Sepia-toned drawing of a woman dressed in a flowing, striped dress with puffed sleeves and feathered hat.

A woman faces away from the viewer with her right hand raised and pointer finger extended. She is wearing a dress with a feathered hat and her hair is pulled up. The dress is long with a tapered waist and voluminous, striped skirt. Light fabric flows from the sleeves midway down the skirt where the stripes begin. The dress features a high neck with ruffles that extend across the top. The hat sits atop the woman’s head with a large feather protruding from the left side.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2024.81
People
Jan de Bisschop, Dutch (Amsterdam, Netherlands 1628 - 1671 The Hague, Netherlands)
Title
Woman in Sixteenth-Century Costume
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Woman with Fur
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/183611

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink, brown wash, and white opaque watercolor over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, mounted on brown paper
Dimensions
14.2 x 9.8 cm (5 9/16 x 3 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • collector's mark: lower right, faded black ink: ER [Lugt 897, mark of Eugène Rodrigues]
  • collector's mark: on mat, lower right, black ink: [rooster on a turtle] [Lugt 2811b, mark of Carl Robert Rudolf]
  • collector's mark: verso of brown paper mount, lower center, blue ink: M G A [in monogram] [Lugt 3306, mark of Maida and George Abrams]
  • collector's mark: verso of brown paper mount, lower left, black ink: [crown over star] [Lugt 2879, mark of Max von Heyl zu Herrnsheim]
  • inscription: verso of brown paper mount, lower center, graphite: 317
  • inscription: verso of brown paper mount, lower right, graphite: 161

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Freiherr Max von Heyl zu Herrnsheim, Darmstadt (Lugt 2879). Eugène Rodrigues (born 1853), Paris (Lugt 897). Philip Hofer, Cambridge. John S. Newberry, Jr., Grosse Pointe Fams, Michigan. Carl Robert Rudolf, London (Lugt 2811b), sold [through his sale, Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, June 6, 1977, lot 59]. [Adolphe Stein], sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston (Lugt 3306), 1978

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 A. Tedeschi, Harvard College A.B. Class of 1954; Ph.D. '66
Accession Year
2024
Object Number
2024.81
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Fine Dutch, Flemish and Swiss Drawings, from the Collection of the Late Mr. C. R. Rudolf, Part II, auct. cat., Sotheby Mak van Waay (Amsterdam, June 6, 1977), pp. 32, 122, lot 59, repr. p. 122
  • 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. 220-221, cat. no. 97, repr. p. 221

Exhibition History

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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