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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.148
People
Egbert van Heemskerck the Elder, Dutch (Haarlem 1634 - 1704 London, England)
Title
Tavern Scene
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/188773

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Prussian blue (blue-green) ink and blue-green wash on light tan antique laid paper
Dimensions
actual: 27.7 x 42.7 cm (10 7/8 x 16 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • collector's mark: verso, lower left, red ink stamp: L. 873b (E. J. Otto)
  • collector's mark: verso, lower left, brown ink, stamp: L. 561 (Cornelis Hofstede de Groot)
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 6237 [underlined] / 3597 [erased]
  • inscription: verso, lower right, red chalk: 54
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: Inv. 37
  • inscription: verso, lower center, graphite: 25183
  • watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, The Hague (L. 561, verso, lower left), sold (possibly); [C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 4 November 1931, lot 113]. Ernst Jurgen Otto, Celles, Germany (L. 873b, verso, lower left). [C. G. Boerner, Dusseldorf], sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1964; The Maida and George Abrams Collection, 1999.148.

NOTE: In the Boerner sale of November 1931, lots 105-116 are all Egbert van Heemskerk. No. 113 matches this drawing best in its description and exhibition history.


Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
1999.148
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Ausgewählte Handzeichnungen aus vier Jahrhunderten, auct. cat., C. G. Boerner (Düsseldorf, 1964), cat. no. 69, n.p., repr. pl. 27, fig. 69
  • Franklin W. Robinson, Selections from the Collection of Dutch Drawings of Maida and George Abrams, exh. cat., Jewett Arts Center (Wellesley, MA, 1969), cat. 27, p. ix, repr.
  • Annemarie Stefes, Niederländische Zeichnungen 1450-1850: Kupferstichkabinett der Hamburger Kunsthalle, ed. Andreas Stolzenburg and Hubertus Gaßner, Böhlau Verlag (Cologne, 2011), vol. 1, p. 268, under cat. no. 420 (n. 1)

Exhibition History

  • Selections from the Collection of Dutch Drawings of Maida and George Abrams, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Hanover, 03/27/1969 - 04/28/1969; Wellesley College Museum of Art, Wellesley, 05/04/1969 - 06/04/1969; Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, 09/17/1969 - 10/12/1969; University of Connecticut Museum of Art, Storrs, 10/18/1969 - 11/16/1969

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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