- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1999.123.40.1
- People
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Dirck Govertsz. (c. 1575 - 1646/47 Gorinchem, Netherlands)
Previously attributed to Jacques de Gheyn III, Dutch (Amsterdam, Netherlands c. 1596 - 1641 Utrecht, Netherlands)
- Title
- Bearded Old Man
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- album page, drawing
- Date
- 17th century
- Culture
- Dutch
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/188870
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Black chalk on parchment
- Dimensions
- 11 x 15.2 cm (4 5/16 x 6 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: Lower right, black chalk: DG
- Provenance
- 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
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- Credit Line
- The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Accession Year
- 1999
- Object Number
- 1999.123.40.1
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- 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
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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. 42-43, repr. p. 43 as fig. 38
- Subjects and Contexts
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Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings
- Related Works
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