G1900: Adriaen van de Venne
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- G1900
- People
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Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemian (Prague 1607 - 1677 London)
After Adriaen van de Venne, Dutch (Delft 1589 - 1662 The Hague)
- Title
- Adriaen van de Venne
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: Image de divers hommes desprit sublime (Antwerp, 1649)
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1646
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/274305
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Etching printed in black ink on white antique laid paper
- Technique
- Etching
- Dimensions
- plate: 16.5 × 11.6 cm (6 1/2 × 4 9/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: in plate, lower margin: ADRIAEN VĀN VENNE / Natieff de Delft en l'an 1599 a pris son Commençement aupres de Simon Valck / a leyden et de la chez Ieronimus van Disk, Excellent Paintre en blanc et noir quitant / son Maistre, s'est exercé de telle facon en son estude quil a faict des Chefs dieuures pour / le Roy de Denemercq ausi Son Altesse le Prince d'Orange a des belles Chose de sa main / et Beaucoup d'autres Princes, et grandes Seigneurs, mais ces plus belles œuures on esté / en blancq et noyr il est bon poete cet quon trōue per ces livres qui il a faict il tient / sa Residence ala Haye, / A: van Vien pinxit, W: Hollar fecit I Meyssens excudit.
- inscription: lower right corner, graphite: P. 1514
- collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with graphite numbering within: [Gray Collection accession stamp (Lugt 4836)] 1900
- watermark: Strasbourg lily
- inscription: verso, graphite: P 1514 I
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Francis Calley Gray, bequest to nephew, 1856.
William Gray, gift to Harvard University, 1857.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- State
- ii/v
- Standard Reference Number
- New Hollstein 1060, Pennington 1514
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
- Object Number
- G1900
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Verification Level
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