2004.109: "Lief om Leet" ("Love Leads to Suffering")

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2004.109

People

Adriaen van de Venne, Dutch (Delft 1589 - 1662 The Hague)

Title

"Lief om Leet" ("Love Leads to Suffering")

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

17th century

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/219697

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on panel

Dimensions

54.7 x 71.1 cm (21 9/16 x 28 in.)
framed: 65 x 80.8 cm (25 9/16 x 31 13/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.l.: AP: V: Venn
• inscription: back of panel, black paint: 17 [visible only under IR; see curatorial file for photos]
• inscription: back of panel, black paint: A [visible only under IR; see curatorial file for photos]
• label: back of panel, paper, black ink, printed: [mostly torn away:] Vo[ ]en
• inscription: back of panel, white chalk: [ZW/K/]?
• inscription: back of panel, white chalk: [3B"3]?
• inscription: l.r., oil: [in cartouche:] Lief om Leet

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Princesse de Merode, Brussels. Sold [through Christie's, Amsterdam, May 6, 1993, lot 76]; to [Vermeer Associates Limited, Ontario], sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2004

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Special Purchase Fund in memory of Philip A. Straus and in honor of Lynn Straus

Accession Year

2004

Object Number

2004.109

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Annelies Plokker, Adriaen Pietersz. van de Venne (1589-1662): de grisailles met spreukbanden, Acco (Leuven, Netherlands, 1984), no. 69, p. 177

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