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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1968.15
People
Unidentified Artist
After Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch (Mühlbracht 1558 - 1617 Haarlem, Netherlands)
Title
The Entombment of Christ
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
19th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296234

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
20.9 x 15.7 cm (8 1/4 x 6 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: unidentified fragment (probably a crowned shield)
  • inscription: lower left, graphite: HG [in ligature] / 1590
  • inscription: lower right, graphite: #2 x
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: Golzius

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Emile E. Wolf, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1968.

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:

This work is a 19th-century copy after the penultimate plate from Hendrick Goltzius’s 1596–98 series of 12 engravings depicting the Passion of Christ (G7304.3) .1 The drawing, by an unidentified artist, is in the same direction as the engraving, although slightly reduced in size. It is very faithful to Goltzius’s original, with the exception of the slightly altered placement of date and signature, and the four onlookers missing from the background.

While this example emulates Goltzius’s composition, it does not aim to replicate the artist’s meticulous engraving manner. The work was probably done as an artistic exercise, which attests to the continual appeal of Goltzius’s prints as training tools for draftsmen as late as the 19th century.2

Notes

1 Marjolein Leesberg in New Hollstein, Hendrick Goltzius, part 1, no. 27, p. 53.

2 For 17[th}-century examples of the practice of copying as a training tool, see object records in the Harvard Art Museums collections for Ezekiel, 1898.128; and Head of Bacchus, 1986.638 .

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Emile E. Wolf
Accession Year
1968
Object Number
1968.15
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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Verification Level

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