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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.220
People
Follower of Pieter Bruegel, the Elder, Netherlandish (Breda (?), Belgium 1526/30 - 1569 Brussels, Belgium)
Title
A Cripple in a Cart Drawn by a Peasant
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296470

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink over graphite on light tan antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
Dimensions
16 x 22.8 cm (6 5/16 x 9 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • collector's mark: lower right, brown ink: L. 2617 (William Esdaile)
  • collector's mark: lower right, black ink stamp: L. 1530 (Earl Spencer)
  • inscription: verso, lower center, brown ink: F. 1660
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: A71182 [not Colnaghi]
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: FNO
  • inscription: verso, lower center, graphite: L [reversed] / V / C [reversed]
  • watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
WIlliam Esdaile, London (L. 2617, with his mark). Earl of Spencer, Althorp (L. 1530, with his mark). [Frederick Keppel & Co., New York (L. 768), To Paul J. Sachs. without his mark
Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA (L. 2091), From Keppel, bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1965. without his mark

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.220
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Margaret Scott, An Exhibition of Old-Master Drawings for the Benefit of Public Health Nursing Milk and Emergency Fund, exh. cat., Junior League (Pittsburgh, 1933), p. 10, cat. no. 5
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 462, p. 238; vol. 2, repr. fig. 233
  • An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, checklist, Unpublished (1954), cat. no. 6, p. 2 (as follower of Pieter Brueghel ?)
  • 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. 207

Exhibition History

  • An Exhibition of Old-Master Drawings for the Benefit of Public Health Nursing Milk and Emergency Fund, Junior League, Pittsburgh, 12/13/1933 - 01/06/1934
  • 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
  • Art of the Northern Renaissance, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 02/13/1967 - 04/01/1967
  • Northern Renaissance Art: Selected Works, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 02/28/1984 - 04/08/1984

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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