2009.211: Portrait of Maria van Teffelen

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2009.211

People

Jan de Bray, Dutch (Haarlem, Netherlands c. 1627 - 1697 Haarlem, Netherlands)

Title

Portrait of Maria van Teffelen

Other Titles

Former Title: Portrait of a Girl

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1663

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/191999

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black and red chalk counterproof, reworked in red chalk, graphite and black chalk (?) on cream antique laid paper

Technique

Counterproof

Dimensions

19.2 x 17.4 cm (7 9/16 x 6 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: foolscap with seven-pointed collar
• inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: 392/I
• inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: I
• inscription: center right, graphite, by later hand: Atati. suae 12 / 1663 / JDBray fec

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Anna Wertheimer, Paris, sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1978; The Maida and George Abrams Collection, 2009.211.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Accession Year

2009

Object Number

2009.211

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Frima Fox Hofrichter, Haarlem: The Seventeenth Century, exh. cat., Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum (New Brunswick, NJ, 1983), cat. no. 14, p. 63, repr.

Exhibition History

• Haarlem: The Seventeenth Century, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, 02/20/1983 - 04/17/1983

Subjects and Contexts

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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