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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1969.103
People
Maerten de Vos, Netherlandish (Antwerp, Belgium 1532 - 1603 Antwerp, Belgium)
Title
The Sense of Taste
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296485

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down
Dimensions
mount: 25.7 x 34.4 cm (10 1/8 x 13 9/16 in.)
actual: 19.2 x 25.5 cm (7 9/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: former brown paper, black typeface: THE SENSE OF TASTE (?) / Martin de Vos ? More probably by his / pupil Hendrick de clerck (1570-1629) / v. BM Cat. Vol. V (1932 ed.)
  • inscription: mount, verso, center, graphite: 3
  • watermark: none visible but mount is thick. Too thick for beta radiography.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Austin A. Mitchell, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1969.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Austin A. Mitchell
Accession Year
1969
Object Number
1969.103
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Carol C. Gillham and Carolyn H. Wood, European Drawings from the Collection of the Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC, 2001), under cat. no. 20, p. 62 (n. 1)

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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