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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1.2018.67
People
Jacques de Gheyn II, Dutch (Antwerp, Netherlands 1565 - 1629 The Hague, Netherlands)
Title
Studies of Four Reclining Figures
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1604
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/212627

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, silhouetted, laid down on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
irregular: 16.5 × 23 cm (6 1/2 × 9 1/16 in.)
mount: 18.7 × 25.6 cm (7 3/8 × 10 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • collector's mark: Maida and George Abrams (Lugt 3306)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[T. P. Willard, Brussels], sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston (Lugt 3306), 1980

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
1.2018.67
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Frima Fox Hofrichter, Haarlem: The Seventeenth Century, exh. cat., Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum (New Brunswick, NJ, 1983), cat. no. 41, repr.
  • I. Q. van Regteren Altena, Jacques de Gheyn: Three Generations, M. Nijhoff Publishers (The Hague, Boston and London, 1983), vol. 2, cat. no. II 639, p. 100; repr. vol. 3, p. 127, pl. 238
  • 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. 9, pp. 36-37, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Haarlem: The Seventeenth Century, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, 02/20/1983 - 04/17/1983
  • 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
  • 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

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