Add to Collection

Add this item to an existing or new collection.
Harvard Art Museums
Incorrect Username, Email, or Password
This object does not yet have a description.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1.2018.36
People
Johannes Bronckhorst, Dutch (Leiden, Netherlands 1648 - 1727 Hoorn, Netherlands)
Title
Three Birds
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Roller, a Macaw and a Wren
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th-18th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/211331

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on parchment
Dimensions
29.6 x 27.3 cm (11 5/8 x 10 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Black ink, lower center: J.B. fec.
  • inscription: verso, lower left, black ink: S x [?]
  • collector's mark: verso, lower center, blue ink: M/G [inside] A [Lugt 3306, mark of Maida and George Abrams]
  • inscription: verso, lower center, black ink: geldensche spegt / west Ind: klyn volgeltje / het eenige dat singt

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, May 3, 1976, lot 111], sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston (Lugt 3306)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Promised Gift
Accession Year
2018
Object Number
1.2018.36
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.

Publication History

  • Fine Dutch, Flemish, and German Drawings, auct. cat., Sotheby Mak van Waay (Amsterdam, May 3, 1976), pp. 24-25, lot 112, repr. p. 24
  • 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), pp. 222-223, cat. no. 102, repr. p. 223
  • Edward Saywell, Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1998), vol. 6, no. 2, checklist no. 3, p. 26

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
  • Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/03/1998 - 12/30/1998
  • Mirror of Holland: Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, Part 2, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 03/26/2011 - 07/31/2011

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu