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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1982.13
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Spectators at an Adoration
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1515
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/295321

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper
Dimensions
actual: 23.2 x 10.7 cm (9 1/8 x 4 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: former mount, verso, graphite: 127 / coll. C. Gasc. / vente 1865
  • inscription: former mount: Albert Durer mag. no. 1586 Bgszs [?]
  • collector's mark: lower right, red ink, stamp: L. 543 (Charles Gasc)
  • collector's mark: lower right, black ink, stamp: L. 4030 [Jean Cantacuzène]
  • watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Charles Gasc, Paris (L. 543, lower right). Jean Cantacuzène, (L. 4030, lower right). [Bernard Houthakker Gallery, Amsterdam, 1970], sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1982.

NOTE: Gasc and Cantacuzène provenance from 1970 Houthakker catalogue.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, William C. Heilman, Dorothy B. and Joseph Edinburg and Marian H. Phinney Funds
Accession Year
1982
Object Number
1982.13
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Yvonne Bleyerveld, Albert Jan Elen, and Judith Niessen, Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries in the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam: Artists Born before 1581, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam, 2012), [online publication: [http://collectie.boijmans.nl/nl/object/90677/Kop-van-een-man-in-profiel-naar-rechts/Anoniem], accessed 4-25-23

Exhibition History

  • Prints and Drawings from the Time of Holbein and Breugel, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 11/21/1985 - 01/12/1986

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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