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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1941.110
People
Attributed to Michael Sweerts, Flemish (Brussels 1618 - 1664 Goa, India)
Title
Man with a Pipe
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Self Portrait as a Smoker
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1650
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230524

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
66 x 48.9 cm (26 x 19 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[David Koetser, New York] ( -1941), sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1941.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund
Accession Year
1941
Object Number
1941.110
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Jakob Rosenberg, "An Early Self -Portrait by Barent Fabrituis", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, March 1945), vol. X, no. 3, P. 80-85, fig. 2
  • Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, 1967)
  • Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings from the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY, 1967), cat. 16
  • Andrea Kirsh, "Worlds Below: An Investigation of Infrared Reflectography" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, April 1973), Unpublished, pp. 1-25 passim
  • 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)
  • Rolf Kultzen, Michael Sweerts, Davaco Publishers (Doornspijk, The Netherlands, 1996), P. 140, fig. R33, Plate 189
  • Guido Jansen and Peter C. Sutton, Michael Sweerts (1618-1664), exh. cat., ed. Duncan Ball, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (Amsterdam, 2002), repr. in b/w fig. 53, p. 59

Exhibition History

  • Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings from the Fogg Art Museum, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, 05/08/1967 - 06/11/1967
  • Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 10/12/1967 - 12/03/1967

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