1966.9: Allegory of Redemption (Design for a Frontispiece)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1966.9

People

Jan Erasmus Quellinus, Flemish (1634 - 1715)

Title

Allegory of Redemption (Design for a Frontispiece)

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

17th-18th century

Culture

Flemish

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296496

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Gray ink and brown wash over graphite or black chalk, incised, with a framing line in brown ink, on cream antique laid paper

Dimensions

12.8 x 8.8 cm (5 1/16 x 3 7/16 in.)
primary mount: 14 x 10 cm (5 1/2 x 3 15/16 in.)
secondary mount: 23 x 17 cm (9 1/16 x 6 11/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• stamp: primary mount, verso, lower right, blue ink, stamp, German: Zollamt [illegible] [German customs stamp]
• inscription: secondary mount, lower right, brown ink: 375 [triad of dots]
• watermark: none visible

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Walter Schatzki, New York], sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1966.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dorothy B. Edinburg

Accession Year

1966

Object Number

1966.9

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, checklist, Unpublished (1954), cat. no. 37, p. 9

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

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