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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1979.1
People
Unidentified Artist
Follower of Bartholomeus Spranger, Netherlandish (Antwerp 1546 - 1611 Prague)
Title
Standing Figure
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/295510

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gray wash over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper
Dimensions
14.5 × 8.7 cm (5 11/16 × 3 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • collector's mark: lower left, black ink, stamp: unidentified [illegible, perhaps a gryphen or bird encircled?]
  • watermark: None

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Unidentified Collection (with its mark, verso, lower left, not in Lugt). Adolphe Stein, Paris, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1979.

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 Austeja Mackelaite, completed April 03, 2018:

Not a direct copy after a known work by Spranger, this drawing is likely an original invention in the style of the master. Indeed, the overall linear economy of this small-scale sheet and the graceful yet somewhat contrived contrapposto of the figure recall the energetic and quickly sketched figure studies Spranger produced while at the imperial court in Prague.1 According to Sally Metzler, the majority of such drawings in the style of Spranger would have been made by artists from the German-speaking sphere, who would have had a chance to study his drawings and paintings firsthand in his Prague workshop.2

Notes

1 See, for instance, Apollo, brown ink with brown wash and touches of red chalk on paper rubbed with black chalk, 202 × 140 mm, Vienna, Grafische Sammlung Albertina, 7996.

2 Sally Metzler, “Nachzeichnungen nach Bartholomäus Spranger,” in Zeichnen im Zeitalter Bruegels: die niederländischen Zeichnungen des 16. Jahrhunderts im Dresdner Kupferstich-Kabinett, ed. Thomas Ketelsen et al. (Köln: König, 2011), p. 319.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Adolphe Stein
Accession Year
1979
Object Number
1979.1
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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