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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1.2018.191
People
Cornelis Visscher, Dutch (Haarlem, Netherlands 1628/29 - 1658 Haarlem, Netherlands)
Title
Baby Crying
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/212713

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk on parchment, framing line in black chalk, mounted down entirely.
Dimensions
13.3 × 10.8 cm (5 1/4 × 4 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Signed, upper right, black chalk: C Visscher / fecit. [underlined]
  • inscription: verso, right edge, graphite: A. Delfos naar C. Visscher / 1773
  • inscription: mount, under drawing, graphite: F 30-.-. te Amsterdam door / Pl: v. Amstel geboden / in t by zijn der voornaamste / Liefhebbers. [erased graphite inscription is visible under this inscription, mostly illegible, but read in part "1770"]
  • inscription: mount, under drawing, lower left, graphite: f. 30
  • inscription: mount, under drawing, lower right, graphite: 510

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Cornelis Ploos van Amstel. Sold [through Christie's, Amsterdam, November 25, 1991, lot 88, together with another drawing]; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston

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
1.2018.191
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Joanna Sheers Seidenstein, Cornelis Visscher's 'Roma Mother with Children:' Transforming a Prototype by Jacques de Gheyn", Master Drawings (Spring 2022), vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 87-90, p. 90, note 5

Exhibition History

  • 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

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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