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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2023.625
People
Nicolaes Berchem the Elder, Dutch (Haarlem, Netherlands 1620 - 1683 Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Title
Standing Man Seen from Behind
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1660
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/212483

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, mounted overall
Dimensions
34 x 24.5 cm (13 3/8 x 9 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: None

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Possibly Abraham van Broyel. [De Leth, Amsterdam, October 30, 1759, lot A46]. Possibly Johan van der Marck, Leiden. [De Winter, Yver, Amsterdam, November 29, 1773, lot 588]. Possibly Johan Tak, Leiden. [Van de Vinne, Haarlem, October 10, 1780, lot G 479]. Earl of Warwick, sold [through his sale, Sotheby's, London, June 17, 1936, lot 11]. I. Q. van Regteren Altena, Amsterdam. Richard Davis, Minneapolis. [R. M. Light & Co., Boston]. Harold Joachim, Chicago. [R. M. Light & Co., Santa Barbara], sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1990, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2023

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 Stokley P. Towles, Harvard Business School '60
Accession Year
2023
Object Number
2023.625
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Catalogue of Important Drawings removed from Warwick Castle . . ., auct. cat., Sotheby & Co. (London, June 17, 1936), lot 112, repr. (as Terborch)
  • Horst Vey, Sammlung Herbert Giradet: Holländische und flämische Meister, exh. cat., Wallraf-Richartz-Museum (Rotterdam, 1970), under no. 3
  • Peter Schatborn, "Figuurstudies van Nicolaes Berchem", Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum (1974), 22, pp. 3-16, pp. 12-13, fig. 14
  • Frederik J. Duparc and Linda L. Graif, Italian Recollections: Dutch Painters of the Golden Age, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montreal, Canada, 1990), p. 68, fig. 32
  • 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. 74, pp. 166-167, repr. p. 167
  • Michiel C. Plomp, The Dutch Drawings in the Teyler Museum, II. Artists Born between 1575 and 1630, Snoeck-Ducaju Zoon and Davaco Publishers (Doornspijk, 1997), p. 61
  • Peter C. Sutton and Marjorie E. Wieseman, Old Master Paintings, 1999, pp. 10-12, fig. 1
  • William W. Robinson, Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 93, repr.
  • Sebastian Smee, "Reflecting on Dutch Golden Age: 'Mirror" focuses on 17th-century drawings at MFA", The Boston Globe (December 10, 2010), Section G, pp. 20-21, p. 21

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
  • Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, British Museum, London, 06/13/2002 - 09/22/2002; Institut Néerlandais, Paris, 10/10/2002 - 12/08/2002; Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/22/2003 - 07/06/2003
  • Mirror of Holland: Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, Part 1, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 11/20/2010 - 03/06/2011
  • 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
  • Future Minded: New Works in the Collection, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/01/2024 - 07/21/2024

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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