1999.133: A Standing Man

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1999.133

People

Willem Pietersz. Buytewech, Dutch (Rotterdam, Netherlands 1591/92 - 1624 Rotterdam, Netherlands)

Title

A Standing Man

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1614-15

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/212689

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink and brown wash over traces of black chalk, on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink at left and right

Dimensions

17 x 7.9 cm (6 11/16 x 3 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso, lower center, graphite: Uytenbroeck [crossed out]
• inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: Uytenroek
• inscription: verso, upper left, brown ink: 1... / 561 [faint]
• inscription: verso, lower left, graphite or black chalk: I L [O?] [underlined]
• watermark: none
• collector's mark: verso, lower center, purple ink: L. 3306 (Maida and George Abrams)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, August 31-September 1, 1933, lot 554]. Tobias Christ, Basel. Frau Dr. S. Schneider-Christ, Basel. [Sotheby's, London, 9 April 1981, lot 22], sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston; The Maida and George Abrams Collection, 1999.133.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Accession Year

1999

Object Number

1999.133

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Jan Kunstreich, "Der "Geistreiche Willem": Studien zu Willem Buytewech, 1591-1624" (Thesis, Kunsthistorisches Institut der Universitat Kiel, 1959), Kunsthistorischen Institut der Universitat Kiel, cat. no. 72
• Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, "Willem Buytewech" (Thesis, Utrecht University, 1959), H. Hertzberger, pp. 67ff., 117, cat. no. 49, repr.
• Willem Buytewech, exh. cat., Institut Néerlandais (Paris, 1974), sub. cat. no. 46
• Frederik J. Duparc, "[Review] Collectie Abrams in Rijksprentenkabinet", Tableau (1991), vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 40-42, pp. 41-42
• 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. 13, pp. 44-45, repr.
• George S. Keyes, "[Review] Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drawings. A Selection from the Maida and George Abrams Collection", Master Drawings (Winter 1992), vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 443-448, pp. 445-46
• William W. Robinson, "Abrams Dutch Drawings Given to the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Mass.", Apollo (December 1999), vol. 150, pp. 14-16, p. 16
• Seymour Slive, "Collecting 17th-century Dutch art in the United States: the current boom", Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum (2001), vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 84-99, p. 97 (n. 11)
• Annemarie Stefes, Niederländische Zeichnungen 1450-1850: Kupferstichkabinett der Hamburger Kunsthalle, ed. Andreas Stolzenburg and Hubertus Gaßner, Böhlau Verlag (Cologne, 2011), vol. 1, p. 155, under cat. no. 185 (n. 7)

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

Subjects and Contexts

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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