Harvard Art Museums > 1999.123.17: Peasant Couple Feasting Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Peasant Couple Feasting (Pieter Steenwijck) , 1999.123.17,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 22, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/188996. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1999.123.17 People Pieter Steenwijck, Dutch (Delft, Netherlands c. 1615 - after 1656) Title Peasant Couple Feasting Classification Drawings Work Type drawing, album page Date 1639 Culture Dutch Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/188996 Physical Descriptions Medium Graphite on parchment, autograph framing line in graphite Dimensions 11 x 15.2 cm (4 5/16 x 6 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: Lower left, black chalk: P Steenwijck 1639 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 1999.123.17 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. 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. 184 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. 22-23, 51, repr. p. 22 as fig. 19 Subjects and Contexts Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings Related Works 1999.123.1-53 Various Artists Abrams Album Drawings Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
