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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.217
People
Cornelis Visscher, Dutch (Haarlem, Netherlands 1628/29 - 1658 Haarlem, Netherlands)
Title
Bust of a Boy
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296438

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk and brown opaque watercolor (?) on white prepared parchment
Dimensions
13.7 x 11.3 cm (5 3/8 x 4 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • gallery label: in curatorial file, typeface and brown ink: [typeface] From FRED[abraded]CK K[abraded]PPEL & CO / Rare en[abraded]av[covered]ngs and Etchings, / No. 4 East 39th Street, New York. / No. H3157 [pen] Study of a Boy's Head / Original drawing by Cornelis Visscher / (1620-1670) / From the Colln of Baron von Lanna. / (Campbel Dodgson, of the British Museum was anxious / to secure this drawing, + was the underbidder)
  • inscription: verso, upper right, graphite: 57
  • inscription: verso, lower center and lower left, graphite: [lower center] Lanna. / [lower left] Campbell Dodgson / wanted to buy this for / the British Museum.
  • inscription: verso, lower center, graphite: Corn: Vissher
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 571
  • inscription: verso, lower left, grahpite: 6823
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: a64055 [not Colnaghi]
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: FWO-
  • collector's mark: verso, lower center, black ink, stamp and graphite: L. 2773 [with accompanying graphite inscription] 571 (Adalbert von Lanna)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Adalbert Freiherr von Lanna, Prague (L. 2773, with his mark), sold, [H. G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart, 6-11 May 1910, lot 571]. [Frederick Keppel & Co., New York]. Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA (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
1965.217
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. 539, pp. 282-3; vol. 2, repr. fig. 279
  • An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, checklist, Unpublished (1954), cat. no. 79, p. 19
  • Jan Gerrit van Gelder, De Schoonheid van ons Land: Beeldende Kunsten, Prenten en Tekeningen, Uitgeverij Contact (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1958), cat. no. 121, p. 96, repr. fig. 121
  • 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

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

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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