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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR55.17
People
Abraham Bloemaert, Dutch (Gorinchem, Netherlands 1566 - 1651 Utrecht, Netherlands)
Previously attributed to Bartholomeus Spranger, Netherlandish (Antwerp 1546 - 1611 Prague)
Title
Apollo and Daphne
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1592-1596
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/223368

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
25.7 cm (10 1/8 in.)
frame: 33.9 x 4.9 cm (13 5/16 x 1 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • (not assigned): verso of frame, upper left, graphite: Bartel Spranger / 1624 (Gulachlen Troche)
  • incipit: verso of frame, top center: (1546 - [illegible, obscured]
  • inscription: verso of frame, bottom, white chald: SPRANGER [illegible, obscured]
  • label: verso of frame, left, round: MATHAIS KOMOR / WORKS OF ART / Q [or 2] 396] / NEW YORK

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Mathias Komor Gallery, New York], sod; to Bush-Reisinger Museum, 1955

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Association Fund
Accession Year
1955
Object Number
BR55.17
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Marilyn Aronberg Lavin, "An Attribution to Abraham Bloemaert", Oud Holland (1965), vol. 80, no. 1-4, pp. 123-129, pp. 124-125, repr. p. 128 as fig. 5
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), ill p. 176, cat.118
  • Marcel Roethlisberger and Marten Jan Bok, Abraham Bloemaert and his Sons, Paintings and Prints, Davaco Publishers (Doornspijk, 1993), vol 1, no. 26 p.75; vol II, repr. as fig. 56

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