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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2023.631
People
Cornelis Dusart, Dutch (Haarlem, Netherlands 1660 - 1704 Haarlem, Netherlands)
Title
Five Peasants in an Interior
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1690
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/211339

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink, brown and gray wash and watercolor, over black chalk on parchment
Dimensions
25.4 x 30 cm (10 x 11 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lower right, black ink: Corn: dusart. fe. 1690
  • inscription: verso, lower left, brown ink: XXVII / 28
  • watermark: None
  • inscription: verso, lower left, brown ink: N2870
  • collector's mark: lower right, black ink stamp: BY [encircled; Alfred Beurdeley, Lugt 421]
  • collector's mark: lower right, black ink stamp: W surmounted by a crown [Earl of Warwick; Lugt 2600]
  • collector's mark: verso, lower left, black ink stamp: CG [encircled; Sir Charles Greville; Lugt 549]
  • collector's mark: verso, center, blue ink stamp: MGA [Maida and George Abrams; Lugt 3306]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Valerius Röver, Delft (Lugt 2984a-c), his estate inventory (Röver 1739). [1] Johan Goll van Franckenstein, Amsterdam (Lugt 2987). Sir Charles Francis Greville (Lugt 549), England. Earl of Warwick, Warwick Castle (Lugt 2600), sold [through his sale, Christie's, London, May 20, 1896, lot 114]. Harry Quilter, sold [through his sale, Christie's, London, April 7 & 9, 1906, lot 62]; to [Colnaghi]. Alfred Beurdeley, Paris (Lugt 421), sold [through his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 8-10, 1920, lot 118]; to Catroux. [Drouot, Paris, commissaires-priseurs Lenormand & Dayen, May 27, 1987, lot 99]. [Bruno de Bayser, Paris], sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1989, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2023

Notes

[1] In the Röver estate inventory in 1739, p. 65, Prt. 26, no. 38

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gift of George Abrams in memory of Paul R. Corcoran, Harvard College '54
Accession Year
2023
Object Number
2023.631
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Chefs-d'oeuvre des collections parisiennes, exh. cat., Musée Carnavalet (Paris, 1950), no. 103
  • Importants tableaux, dessins et sculptures anciens et modernes; Ancienne collection Beurdeley et à divers amateurs, auct. cat., Hôtel Drouot (Paris, May 27, 1987), lot 99, repr.
  • 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. 98, pp. 214-215, 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. 11, p. 56

Exhibition History

  • Chefs-d'oeuvre des collections parisiennes, Musée Carnavalet, 11/01/1950 - 12/31/1950
  • 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
  • Drawn to Daily Life: Dutch Genre Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 03/08/2014 - 09/06/2014
  • 32Q: 2300 Dutch & Flemish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/17/2024 - 10/24/2024

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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