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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1978.79
People
Unidentified Artist
Copy after Maarten van Heemskerck, Netherlandish (1498 - 1574)
Title
The Forge of Vulcan
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/295797

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink, black chalk and incidental or accidental green wash on cream antique laid paper; framing line in graphite and brown ink
Dimensions
actual: 24.5 x 37.8 cm (9 11/16 x 14 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, lower right, red chalk: K22
  • inscription: verso, right center, brown ink: 3
  • collector's mark: lower left, blue ink, stamp: L. 1223 (Giuseppe Vallardi)
  • inscription: on old mount, in curatorial file, brown ink: Guilio Romano [with flourish] / 1259
  • inscription: on old mount, in curatorial file, graphite: Forge of Vulcan
  • inscription: on old blue mount, in curatorial file, graphite: Heamskerk ? / The original Drawing for JW.18 [?] by Colbaccini Helirbybus [?] / 1877
  • inscription: verso, lower right, brown ink: [illegible]
  • inscription: verso, upper right, on blue patch, red chalk: [illegible]
  • watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Giuseppe Vallardi, Milan (L. 1223, with his mark). H. Nelson Goodman, Needham, Massachusetts, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1978.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Nelson Goodman
Accession Year
1978
Object Number
1978.79
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Tatjana Bartsch, Maarten van Heemskerck: Römische Studien zwischen Sachlichkeit und Imagination, Hirmer (Munich, 2019), pp. 298, 478, 558, cat. 222, repr. p. 298

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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