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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.123.2
People
Pieter de Bloot, Dutch (Rotterdam, Netherlands 1601/1602 - 1658 Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Title
Seated Smoker Holding Tongs; verso: Blank page
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
album page, drawing
Date
1634-1641
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/188897

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and red chalk on parchment
Dimensions
15.2 × 11 cm (6 × 4 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Lower left, black chalk: P De Bloot

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
1999.123.2
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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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, "The Abrams Album: An 'Album Amicorum' of Dutch Drawings from the Seventeeth Century", Master Drawings (Spring 2015), LIII, no. 1, pp. 3-58, pp. 9-10, 28, repr. p. 9 as fig. 7
  • Joanna Sheers Seidenstein and Susan Anderson, ed., Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2022), pp. 201-202, repr. p. 202 as fig. 6

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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Verification Level

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