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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2009.210
People
Jacques de Gheyn II, Dutch (Antwerp, Netherlands 1565 - 1629 The Hague, Netherlands)
Title
An Exhibition of Precious Vessels visited by a man, a woman and a child
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/188639

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink on light tan antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink, mounted on antique laid paper
Dimensions
10 x 14.3 cm (3 15/16 x 5 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower right, brown ink: Jaques. de. Gheyn. / 1565 - 16.29
  • inscription: mount, verso, center, graphite, erased: T18[5]5 Ol...ra
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower left, brown ink: INV. [underlined and overlined] H. 229.
  • (not assigned): Former cardboard mat, in possession of HAM, with attached label from Master Drawings Exhibited by Bernard Houthakker 1972.: Jacob de Gheyn II 15 Two men contemplating gold vessels / Antwerp 156501629 The Hague pen and brown ink 102:144 mm / possibly the illustration of a scriptural text / 1972
  • inscription: Former cardboard mat, curatorial file, upper left, graphite: bge bq [?] . cde 1 [?] [barely legible, erased]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Bernard Houthakker Galley, Amsterdam]. Maida and George Abrams, Boston; The Maida and George Abrams Collection, 2009.210.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Accession Year
2009
Object Number
2009.210
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Master Drawings Exhibited by Bernard Houthakker 1972, auct. cat. (Amsterdam, 1972), n.p. cat. list, cat. no. 15, n.p., repr.
  • Franklin W. Robinson, Seventeenth Century Dutch Drawings from American Collections, exh. cat., International Exhibitions Foundation (Washington, D.C, 1977), cat. no. 8, pp. xiv and 11, repr.
  • I. Q. van Regteren Altena, Jacques de Gheyn: Three Generations, M. Nijhoff Publishers (The Hague, Boston and London, 1983), vol. 2, cat. no. II 153, p. 43; repr. vol. 3, p. 178, pl. 349

Exhibition History

  • Master Drawings Exhibited by Bernard Houthakker 1972, Bernard Houhakker C.V., Amsterdam, 01/01/1972 - 12/31/1972
  • Seventeenth Century Dutch Drawings from American Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 01/30/1977 - 03/13/1977; Denver Art Museum, Denver, 04/01/1977 - 05/15/1977; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 06/01/1977 - 07/15/1977

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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