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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.126
People
Cornelis Bega, Dutch (Haarlem, Netherlands 1631/32 - 1664 Haarlem, Netherlands)
Title
The School Room
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1655-1664
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/199118

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown and gray wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper; verso: black chalk or crayon trial strokes and incidental stray red chalk
Dimensions
17.1 x 27.8 cm (6 3/4 x 10 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Left, on door, brown ink: c. bega
  • inscription: verso, left edge, brown ink: Sorenden die geen die sulke vrinden
  • collector's mark: verso, lower left, brown ink: No. 3501. [L. 2986b (Jacob Helmolt)]
  • collector's mark: verso, lower right, black ink stamp: L. 2811b (C. R. Rudolf)
  • collector's mark: verso, lower right, blue ink stamp: L. 3306 (Maida and George Abrams)
  • watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Jacob Helmolt, Haarlem (L. 2986b, verso, lower center). Carl Robert Rudolf, London (L. 2811b, verso, lower right). [Alfred Brod Gallery, London]. A. Simon, Hoe Farm, Surrey, 1981, sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston (L. 3306, verso, lower right); The Maida and George Abrams Collection, 1999.126.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
1999.126
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, auct. cat., Alfred Brod Gallery (London, England, 1964), cat. no. 64, p. 32, repr. p. 20
  • Mary Ann Scott, "Cornelis Bega as Painter and Draughtsman" (1984), University Microfilms, cat. no. D55, p. 387
  • William W. Robinson, Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drawings: A Selection from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, exh. cat., H. O. Zimman, Inc. (Lynn, MA, 1991), cat. no. 90, pp. 198-199, repr.
  • 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. 2, p. 55
  • Peter van den Brink and Bernd Wolfgang Lindemann, Cornelis Bega: Eleganz und raue Sitten, exh. cat., Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Berlin, 2012), cat. no. 6, pp. 99-101, 259, repr. and pp. 43, 45, and 106, under cat. no. 8

Exhibition History

  • Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drawings: A Selection from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 02/23/1991 - 04/18/1991; Albertina Gallery, Vienna, 05/16/1991 - 06/30/1991; The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 01/22/1992 - 04/22/1992; Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/10/1992 - 12/06/1992
  • 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
  • Cornelis Bega: Eleganz und raue Sitten, Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen, Aachen, 03/15/2012 - 06/10/2012; Gemäldegalerie Berlin, 07/01/2012 - 10/02/2012

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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