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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.94
People
Matthijs Maris, Dutch (The Hague, The Netherlands 1839 - 1917 London, United Kingdom)
Title
Young Girl with Butterflies
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Little Girl with Butterflies
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1873
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230240

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
25.08 x 18.1 cm (9 7/8 x 7 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: M.M. '73

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Herbert Sears, Boston, sold [through the sale of his estate, Sotheby, Parke, Bernet, New York, October 17, 1942] [via Martin Birnbaum]; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, 1942, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.94
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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), p. 117; repr. as no . 200
  • Dieuwertje Dekkers, "Where are the Dutchmen?" Promoting the Hague School in America, 1875-1900", Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art (1996), 24, p. 58, ill. p. 59
  • Richard Bionda, Matthijs Maris, 2017, pp. 173, 175, repr. p. 175 as 47C

Exhibition History

  • Sublimations: Art and Sensuality in the 19th Century, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/13/1996 - 07/21/2002
  • For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/16/2004

Verification Level

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