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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.218
People
Cornelis Visscher, Dutch (Haarlem, Netherlands 1628/29 - 1658 Haarlem, Netherlands)
Title
The Gypsy
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296621

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk and brown wash on parchment, framing line in black chalk
Dimensions
actual: 36.2 x 28 cm (14 5/16 x 11 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite: Corn d. Visscher / Coll. a.g. de Visser No. 492.[underlined] / 1881. Mai amsterdam. / [illegible, erased]
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 578 [underlined]
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 85 [? crossed out]
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 471188
  • collector's mark: verso, lower right, black ink stamp and graphite: L. 2773 / 574 (Adalbert von Lanna)
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 6/7 [?] P.J.S. / with engraving
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 547
  • watermark: none [vellum]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Possibly Simon Fokke, Amsterdam. Possibly Hendrik Muilman, Amsterdam. Possibly Jacob de Vos Jacobszoon, Amsterdam (L. 1450, without his mark). Johan Conrad Spengler, Copenhagen (L. 1434, without his mark), his sale; [Copenhagen, 8 October 1839, lot 1582]. Possibly De Visser. Adalbert Freiherr von Lanna, Prague (L. 2773, with his mark), sold; [H. G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart, 6-11 May 1910, lot 578]. [Frederick Keppel & Co., New York], sold; to Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts, (L. 2091, without his mark), bequest; 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
1965.218
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Georg Kasper Nagler, Neues allgemeines kunstler-lexicon; oder, Nachrichten von dem leben und den werken der maler, bildhauer, baumeister, kupferstecher, etc., E. A. Fleischmann (Munich, Germany, 1835 - 1852), vol. 20, p. 401
  • Johann Wussin, Cornel Visscher. Verzeichniss seiner kupferstiche, R. Weigel (Leipzig, Germany, 1865), p. 192
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 540, p. 283
  • 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
  • Joanna Sheers Seidenstein, Cornelis Visscher's 'Roma Mother with Children:' Transforming a Prototype by Jacques de Gheyn", Master Drawings (Spring 2022), vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 87-90, p. 90, note 5

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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