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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1983.167
People
Adriaen van de Venne, Dutch (Delft 1589 - 1662 The Hague)
Title
The Punishment for Adultery (Study for the Illustration in Jacob Cats's "Self-Stryt, " 1628)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1620-1628
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294853

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown and black ink, gray wash, and white opaque watercolor over graphite, incised, on cream antique laid paper, framing line in black ink over brown ink
Dimensions
6.4 x 8.6 cm (2 1/2 x 3 3/8 in.)
mount: 15.4 x 18 cm (6 1/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Van den Brande collection, Middelburg; by descent to E. C. Baron van Pallandt (1), his sale; [Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 26 September 1972, lot 375] to; Maida and George Abrams, Boston, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1983

(1) It is not clear whether Pieter van den Brande (167?-1718) and/or his son, Johan Pieter van den Brande I (1707-1758) formed the collection that descended to Baron van Pallandt (sale 1972). See Charles Dumas and Robert-Jan te Rijdt, "Kleur en Raffinement: Tekeningen uit de unicorno collective," Zwolle, 1994, pp. 90-91.


Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Maida and George S. Abrams
Accession Year
1983
Object Number
1983.167
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Chris Schuckman and Martin Royalton-Kisch, Rembrandt and Van Vliet: A Collaboration on Copper, exh. cat., Museum het Rembrandthuis (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1996), p. 96, under cat. no. 38, repr. fig. 38.1

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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