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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.123.49
People
Willem van Aelst, Dutch (Delft, Netherlands 1627 - after 1683 Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Title
Blank page; verso: Vanitas Still Life with Armor
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
album page, drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/188935

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk on parchment
Dimensions
11 x 15.2 cm (4 5/16 x 6 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Verso, lower left, black chalk: .W.VA[in ligature]

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
1999.123.49
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

  • Walter Liedtke and Michiel C. Plomp, Vermeer and the Delft School, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 2001), p. 186, fig. 203
  • James Clifton and Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Elegance and Refinement: The Still-Life Paintings of Willem van Aelst, exh. cat., Skira Rizzoli (New York, 2012), pp. 170-171, cat. no. 29, repr.
  • 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. 20, 38, 50-51, repr. front cover
  • 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. 106, fig. 13

Exhibition History

  • Elegance and Refinement: The Still-Life Paintings of Willem van Aelst, National Gallery of Art, 06/24/2012 - 10/14/2012

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Related Works

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