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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1983.141
People
Copy after Paulus van Vianen, Dutch (Utrecht 1570 - 1613 Prague)
Title
Figure Studies
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th-17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294850

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink over graphite, with a framing line in black ink, on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
actual: 17.3 x 13.7 cm (6 13/16 x 5 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: fragment [of a gryphen or eagle?]

    Beta will not be made. Watermark is too fragmentary.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Adolf Friedrich Albert Reinicke, Neustrelitz, by descent; to Martin Reinicke, Darmstadt, sold; [Sotheby's, London, 1 December 1983, part of no. 247]; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1983.

Published Text

Catalogue
Drawings from the Age of Bruegel, Rubens, and Rembrandt: The Complete Collection Online
Authors
Multiple authors
Publisher
Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2017–)

Entry by William W. Robinson, completed March 07, 2019:

Like 1983.139 and 1983.140, this sheet of figure studies belonged to the important group of drawings by Van Vianen that was once in the collection of Adolf Friedrich Albert Reinicke (1753–1838). Most of these drawings were sold by his descendant Martin Reinicke in 1983. This sheet recalls similar figure studies from life by Van Vianen that he sketched in simple outlines with the pen.1 However, in her monograph on the artist’s drawings, Teréz Gerszi rightly catalogued the present work as a copy after a lost study sheet by Van Vianen; she notes that it lacks the decisive contours and convincing evocation of the body beneath the clothing that characterizes his other studies of this type.2

Notes

1 Teréz Gerszi, Paulus van Vianen Handzeichnungen (Leipzig: E. A. Seemann Verlag, 1982), cat. 22v, p. 197.

2 Ibid., cat. K.5, p. 216.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Marian H. Phinney Fund
Accession Year
1983
Object Number
1983.141
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Terez Gerszi, Paulus van Vianen Handzeichnungen, E. A. Seemann (Leipzig, Germany, 1982), cat. K.5, p. 216, repr. fig. 128

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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