2023.639: Card Players
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2023.639
- People
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Frans van Mieris the Elder, Dutch (Leiden, Netherlands 1635 - 1681 Leiden, Netherlands)
- Title
- Card Players
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 17th century
- Culture
- Dutch
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/191449
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black chalk on vellum
- Dimensions
- 19.3 x 14.8 cm (7 5/8 x 5 13/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: lower left, black ink: F. van. Mieris
- inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: FF: N4 / fhno
- inscription: verso, lower left, brown ink, by Johan Goll van Franckenstein: N3887
- inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: F van mieris / de oude / hoog 4 1/2 / breet 5 3/4
- inscription: verso, center left, graphite: 66/260
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Hendrick de Leth, Amsterdam, sold [through his sale, Amsterdam, September 30, 1766, lot 71]. Allard de la Court, Leiden, sold [through sale April 23, 1767, Kunstboek A, no. 1]. Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Amsterdam, sold [through his sale, Van der Schley, De Bosch, Yver, and Roos, Amsterdam, March 3, 1800, Kunstboek DD, no. 2]; to Jonckheer Johan Goll van Franckenstein, Amsterdam (Lugt 2987) by descent; to Pieter Hendrick Goll van Franckenstein, Amsterdam, sold [De Vries, Roos, Amsterdam, July 1, 1833, Kunstboek I, no. 2]. [Christie's, June 23, 1970, lot 89]; to the father of the consigner. [Sotheby's, New York, January 29, 1997, lot 50], sold [via Otto Naumann]; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston (Lugt 3306), gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2023
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gift of George Abrams in appreciation of Otto Naumann
- Accession Year
- 2023
- Object Number
- 2023.639
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Collection d'imitations de dessins d'après les principaux maîtres hollandais et flamands, Attribution commencée par Ploos van Amstel . . ., Christian Josi (Amsterdam and London, 1821), no. 31
- Alfred von Wurzbach, Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon, Halm und Goldmann (Vienna and Leipzig, 1906-1911), vol. 2, p. 334, no. 26
- Otto Naumann, "Frans van Mieris as a Draughtsman", Master Drawings (June 1978), XVI, no. 1, pp. 3-34, pp. 9-11, no. 23, pl. 12
- Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Mary Tavener Holmes, Fritz Koreny, Donald Posner, and Duncan Robinson, The Robert Lehman Collection VII: Fifteenth- to Eighteenth-Century European Drawings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Princeton University Press (New York and Princeton, 1999), p. 278-279
- William W. Robinson, Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 92, repr.
- Michiel C. Plomp, "[Review] Bruegel to Rembrandt. Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection.", Oud Holland (2004), vol. 117, no. 1/2, pp. 99-102, p. 100
Exhibition History
- Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, British Museum, London, 06/13/2002 - 09/22/2002; Institut Néerlandais, Paris, 10/10/2002 - 12/08/2002; Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/22/2003 - 07/06/2003
- Drawn to Daily Life: Dutch Genre Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 03/08/2014 - 09/06/2014
Subjects and Contexts
- Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings
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Verification Level
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