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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1.2018.63
People
Govert Flinck, Dutch (Cleves 1615 - 1660 Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Title
Woman at a Virginal
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/183752

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk on off-white antique laid paper prepared with gray wash, partial framing lines in black chalk and graphite
Dimensions
28.1 x 17.6 cm (11 1/16 x 6 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: Strasbourg lily with initials L P
  • inscription: recto, upper right, brown ink: 77
  • collector's mark: verso, upper right corner, blue ink: lion / HVL [Lugt 2799a, mark of Hans van Leeuwen]
  • inscription: verso, upper left, brown ink: 77

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
E.J. à Thuessink van der Hoop van Slochteren Thomassen, Fraeylemaborg. Sold [through Beijers, Utrecht, September 27- October 6, 1971, part of lot 674]; to Gerard Meijer, Abbenbroek. Hans van Leeuwen, Amsterdam (Lugt 2799), sold; [through Christie's, Amsterdam, November 24, 1992, lot 76]; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston

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
1.2018.63
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Framing line in black chalk.

Publication History

  • Peter Schatborn, "Een toeschrijving aan Govaert Flinck", Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1974), vol. 22, nos. 2-3, pp. 111-120., no. 7, pl. 6
  • Peter C. Sutton and William W. Robinson, Drawings by Rembrandt, his Students and Circle from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, exh. cat., Bruce Museum and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2011), Addendum no. A8, p. 170, repr.

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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