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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2011.517
People
Maerten de Vos, Netherlandish (Antwerp, Belgium 1532 - 1603 Antwerp, Belgium)
Title
Egg Dance outside a Tavern
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/191805

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash over black chalk, extensively incised, on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
19.6 x 29.3 cm (7 11/16 x 11 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper center, on signboard, brown ink: in de broek
  • inscription: lower left, brown ink, covered with white gouache: [illegible]
  • inscription: verso, lower left, brown ink: 12'
  • watermark: unidentified

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Possibly John Thane, London (L. 1544, without his mark). Possibly [W. R. Jeudwine, London.] Private Collector, Montreal. [Jon Nicolas Streep, New York] sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1963; The Maida and George Abrams Colleciton, 2011.517.

NOTE: Provenance information from George Abrams, by recall.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gift of George Abrams in memory of Peter Simonds, Harvard Class of 1954
Accession Year
2011
Object Number
2011.517
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Franklin W. Robinson, Selections from the Collection of Dutch Drawings of Maida and George Abrams, exh. cat., Jewett Arts Center (Wellesley, MA, 1969), cat. no. 22, p. ix, repr. (as Sebastian Vrancx)
  • Anna Knaap, "From Lowlife to Rustic Idyll: The Peasant Genre in 17th-Century Dutch Drawings and Prints", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1996), vol. IV, no. 2, pp. 31-59, cat. no. 69, p. 59

Exhibition History

  • Selections from the Collection of Dutch Drawings of Maida and George Abrams, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Hanover, 03/27/1969 - 04/28/1969; Wellesley College Museum of Art, Wellesley, 05/04/1969 - 06/04/1969; Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, 09/17/1969 - 10/12/1969; University of Connecticut Museum of Art, Storrs, 10/18/1969 - 11/16/1969
  • From Lowlife to Rustic Idyll: The Peasant Genre in 17th-Century Dutch Drawings and Prints, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/29/1997 - 06/22/1997

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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