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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.212
People
Gérard de Lairesse, Dutch (Liège 1641 - 1711 Amsterdam)
Previously attributed to Juriaen Ovens, Dutch (Tonning, Schleswig-Holstein 1623 - 1678 Friedrichstadt)
Title
Adoration of the Magi
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th-18th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296464

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink, touches of black chalk on two pieces of off-white antique laid paper, partial framing line in black ink reinforced in graphite
Dimensions
12.8 x 18.9 cm (5 1/16 x 7 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: fragment of old mount adhered to verso, brown ink and graphite: [brown ink] Presented to me by my old friend / Miles, on the 14th: Jany: 1797 / The above men: made by the late Mr. Daniel (the / celebrated Miniature Painter) at whose sale this / Drawing was purchased / [graphite] Parmigianino
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite, abraded: G de L... [?]
  • inscription: lower right, black ink, abraded: G... L...resse
  • watermark: possibly in mounting paper: fragment of three balls, probably from a foolscap
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: O

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Miles; to W. Daniel [William Daniel?]. [E. Weyhe, New York; without his mark], sold; to Meta and Paul J. Sachs (L. 2091, without his mark), Cambridge, Massachusett, 1945; 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
1965.212
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, checklist, Unpublished (1954), cat. no. 75, p. 18
  • 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 (as Juriaen Ovens)
  • Joseph Meder, The Mastery of Drawing, Abaris Books (New York, 1978), plate 177
  • Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, "A Census of Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, 1540-1680, in North...", Central European History (March 1985), vol. 18, checklist, p. 97

Exhibition History

  • An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/01/1954 - 04/30/1954
  • Drawings fom the Holy Roman Empire, 1540-1680, a Selection from North American Collections, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, 10/03/1982 - 11/22/1982; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 01/27/1983 - 04/11/1983; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 04/23/1983 - 06/19/1983

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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