1999.126: The School Room
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1999.126
- People
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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
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- 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
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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
- Permissions
-
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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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