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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.172
People
Jacob Toorenvliet, Dutch (Leiden, Netherlands 1635 - 1719 Leiden, Netherlands)
Title
Fish Seller
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/191886

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink, brown wash, black and red chalk, red chalk wash, and transparent watercolor on cream antique laid paper, framing line in black and red chalk, laid down on antique laid paper
Dimensions
29.8 x 22.2 cm (11 3/4 x 8 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Lower left, black chalk: J Toornvliet. Fe.
  • watermark: mount: Strasbourg Bend with AJ below. The bend has three stripes. Related to Hinterding's groups E and F. The monogram AJ refers to Abraham Janssen, Dutch factor at Angouleme, active 1635-1710.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Herbert Feist, New York], sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1965; The Maida and George Abrams Collection, 1999.172.

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
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
1999.172
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. 30, p. x, repr.
  • Donna R. Barnes and Linda Stone-Ferrier, People at Work: Seventeenth Century Dutch Art, exh. cat., ed. Donna R. Barnes, Hofstra University (Hempstead, NY, 1988), Cat. no. 47, p. 35, repr.

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
  • People at Work: Seventeenth Century Dutch Art, Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, 04/17/1988 - 06/15/1988

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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