Monochromatic chalk drawing of a finely dressed man clothed in a long-sleeve shirt, trousers, and a cloak, standing beside various plants.
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Monochromatic chalk drawing of a man dressed in fine clothing. He wears a long sleeve shirt, puffed around the elbows and shoulders, trousers, and a large cloak draped across his left shoulder. A bag and two swords, one thin and one wide, hang across the man’s waist and shoulders. White straps criss-cross over the man’s calves from the bottom of the trousers to his shoes. A feathered turban sits atop the man’s head as he looks slightly away from the viewer. Vaguely sketched plants and vines are present to the right of the man reaching up towards his shoulders.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.123.46
People
Govert Flinck, Dutch (Cleves 1615 - 1660 Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Title
Man in Middle Eastern Costume Standing in a Landscape
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Standing Oriental
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
album page, drawing
Date
1638
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/187470

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk on parchment
Dimensions
15.2 × 11 cm (6 × 4 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lower right, black chalk: G.Flinck.f / 1638
  • inscription: lower left, brown ink: g/flink 1631

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Possibly Pieter Spiering, Delft and The Hague. Private collection, United Kingdom, sold [private sale, via Sotheby's, London]; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1987 (Lugt 3306, without their mark), gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 1999

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
1999.123.46
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
This sheet forms part of a seventeenth-century Dutch album, in its original binding, which contains 41 small, full-page drawings on parchment by more than 27 different artists.

Publication History

  • William W. Robinson, Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drawings: A Selection from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, exh. cat., H. O. Zimman, Inc. (Lynn, MA, 1991), p. 58, under no. 20, fig. 1
  • 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. 48, pp. 122-23, 257, repr.
  • Holm Bevers, Lee Hendrix, William W. Robinson, and Peter Schatborn, Drawings by Rembrandt and his Pupils: Telling the Difference, exh. cat., J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, 2009), under cat. no. 3.2, p. 62, repr. p. 63, fig. 3a, and under cat. no. 4.2, p. 67
  • Peter Schatborn, "The Early, Rembrandtesque Drawings of Govert Flinck", Master Drawings (Spring 2010), vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 4-38, pp. 7,13, repr. p. 4 as fig. 1
  • Peter Schatborn, Rembrandt and his Circle: Drawings in the Frits Lugt Collection, Thoth Publishers and Fondation Custodia (2010), vol. 1, p. 205, under cat. no. 78, repr. vol. 2, p. 224, fig. 40
  • 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), cat. no. 23, pp. 25, 84-5, and p. 76, under cat. no. 20, repr. p. 85
  • Emmanuelle Brugerolles, Mària van Berge-Gerbaud, and Peter Schatborn, Rembrandt et son entourage, exh. cat., Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts (Paris, 2012), under cat. no. 21, p. 86
  • William W. Robinson, "The Abrams Album: An 'Album Amicorum' of Dutch Drawings from the Seventeeth Century", Master Drawings (Spring 2015), LIII, no. 1, pp. 3-58, pp. 46-49, repr. p. 48 as fig. 43
  • Giovanna Sapori, L'album amicorum come libro di disegni. Alcuni esempi tra Cinquecento e Seicento (Venius, Ortelius, Abrams, Heyblocq), Libri e album di disegni 1550-1800: Nuove prospettive metodologiche e di esegesi storico-critica (Rome, 2018), p. 110, illus. p. 107, fig. 16
  • Amy Golahny, "Exhibition Review: Imagine Me and You: Dutch and Flemish Encounters with the Islamic World, 1450-1750", Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews, Historians of Netherlandish Art ([online], July 2024), https://hnanews.org/hnar/reviews/exhibition-review-imagine-me-and-you-dutch-and-flemish-encounters-with-the-islamic-world-1450-1750/, accessed July 17, 2024

Exhibition History

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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Verification Level

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