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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.337
People
Jan Speckaert, Netherlandish (d. 1577)
Title
Diana and Acteon
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296494

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in brown ink, laid down on mount
Dimensions
20.9 x 28.2 cm (8 1/4 x 11 3/16 in.)
mount: 24 x 31.7 cm (9 1/2 x 12 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower right, brown ink, pen: Barthelmi Spranger.
  • inscription: mount, lower center, brown ink, French: Diane et acteon.
  • inscription: verso of mount, upper center, brown ink, pen, French: atheon Transformé en Cerf / a la plume Lavé De Bistre.
  • watermark: crescent moon (fragment)

    Beta will not be made -- not possible to capture. But fairly visible in strong light.
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower right, graphite: 10

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Alphonse Kann. American Art Association; to Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts (L. 2091, without his mark), possibly 1927, 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
1965.337
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), no. 367
  • An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, checklist, Unpublished (1954), cat. no. 13, p. 3 (as attributed to Hans Speckaert)

Exhibition History

  • 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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