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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.206
People
Master of 1518, Netherlandish (active early 16th century)
Title
Man Riding on a Steer
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296437

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink, gray wash and white opaque watercolor, incised, on brown prepared paper, framing line in black ink
Dimensions
diam.: 23 cm (9 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: a high crown [not in Briquet, but similar to 4970 and 5012]
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 046676
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: (16)
  • inscription: verso, area of repair, lower right, graphite: WX

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Frederick Keppel & Co., New York], to Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts (L. 2091, without his mark), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.206
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 494, p. 260; vol. 2, repr. fig. 257, as Lucas van Leyden (?)
  • An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, checklist, Unpublished (1954), cat. no. 38, p. 10 (as Lucas van Leyden?)
  • Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), p. 206
  • Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 28, n.p., repr. pl. 28

Exhibition History

  • Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947
  • An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/01/1954 - 04/30/1954
  • European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979
  • Northern Renaissance Art: Selected Works, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 02/28/1984 - 04/08/1984
  • 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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